coworker

Example Sentences

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I asked my coworker if I could borrow a book I’d seen on her desk, and she happily lent it to me.

From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026

How do you advocate for yourself without coming across as whiny or dragging a coworker into the conversation when they probably never intended to reveal their salary?

From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026

The worst gifts aren’t the ones that miss; they are the ones that reveal no attempt at all—generic, last-minute, indistinguishable from what you would give a coworker in an office Secret Santa.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

Border Patrol agents arrested at least one person, who a coworker said was delivering strawberries, outside of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s event in Little Tokyo.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2025

One coworker was openly hostile and competitive, the first time Jesse had ever encountered office politics.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz