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Who was Alexander Graham Bell's colleague during the invention of the telephone?

colleague

[kol-eeg] / ˈkɒl ig /


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The court heard Smith and his colleague, PC Colin Harris, spotted the Audi and recognised Mills Jnr as the driver, having been at his home weeks earlier.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

My Journal colleague Tim Higgins this weekend spelled out the moral conflict gripping the company, noting the money at stake and the race not only among companies but also among countries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

As my former Salon colleague Alison Stine described it in her story about the history of “Hey Jude” as a British football chant, it sounds great when it reverberates through a huge stadium.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

My colleague was faster, clocking in at about 15 hours.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

“Very wise. And that colleague now? Where is he?”

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

Colbert and his colleagues received a rousing reception from the audience as they gathered on stage to accept the award.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

If Warsh leads his colleagues to raise rates this week, it would be harder to argue he is being dragged somewhere.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

That led Cao, who is also a research member of Siteman, and her colleagues to look for a broader way of measuring how many different influences may work together over time to increase cancer susceptibility.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

To get your mind off it for the rest of the night, my colleagues suggest:

From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026

The former thought might preoccupy professors in departments of psychology, and their colleagues in the neighboring departments of neuroscience.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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