colleague
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In many workplaces, a senior staff member pressuring a junior colleague into performing a task which violates industry rules would be met with a swift and significant punishment.
From BBC ⢠Jun. 2, 2026
To address that challenge, Fane and colleague Yash Chabra, PhD, both Assistant Professors in the Cancer Signaling and Microenvironment Research Program, helped establish an aged mouse facility at Fox Chase Cancer Center.
From Science Daily ⢠May 31, 2026
As my colleague Gustavo Arellano has pointed out, Becerra would be the state’s second Latino governor, after Romualdo Pacheco, who held the office for 10 months in 1875.
From Los Angeles Times ⢠May 30, 2026
This one comes from my former colleague, personal tech guru Joanna Stern.
From The Wall Street Journal ⢠May 29, 2026
Once when told that Rutherford was about to make a radio broadcast across the Atlantic, a colleague drily asked: "Why use radio?"
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing colleague
Franklin D. Roosevelt, "A Date That Will Live In Infamy" (1941)
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Vocabulary from "There Will Never Be an Age of Artificial Intimacy," by Sherry Turkle
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