compeers

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These are easy qualities to underestimate, but, as Robert Christgau wrote in 2005, “Anybody who thinks that Fountains of Wayne are just another slick pop band better tell us who their compeers are.”

From Slate • Apr. 2, 2020

It is precisely his status as a billionaire outlier, a “bad boy” gone over to the dark side in the eyes of his compeers, a fearless irreverent, that appeals to his legions.

From Salon • May 21, 2016

No, neither he, nor his compeers by night / Giving him aid, my verse astonished.

From The Guardian • Oct. 15, 2010

The job fell to genial Jesse Jones, whose practical handling of RFC has made him more palatable to Big Business than are most of his Government compeers.

From Time Magazine Archive

His compeers in the same divine idiocy are such immortals as Mark Antony, Marie Stuart, Francis I., almost the whole Bourbon dynasty, Sappho, Cleopatra, Solomon, and a sheaf of other shimmeringly splendid sinners.

From Superwomen by Terhune, Albert Payson