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  • noun Plural form of colleague.

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Examples

  • Being able to listen to and persuade your colleagues is a very important attribute in a Supreme Court justice.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Preliminary Reflections on the Kagan Nomination 2010

  • One of my colleagues is the king of the self-constructed realities, and his entire world starts to come undone if anyone ever calls him on it, so I know these characters well.

    Over / Under: American Beauty « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • Rory Bremner fooling Margaret Beckett into slagging off her colleagues is according to BBC political editor Nick Robinson didn't contain 'a single newsworthy story 'yet Newsnight saw a story about a Tory Party member sending a rude Email as more newsworthy than Downing Street advisor Ruth Turner being arrested.

    Some Stuff Ralph 2007

  • The night I ate out with a group of Friendly Green Folk which is what I call my colleagues from Friendly Green Conference, I had pasta with a deliciously spicy marinara sauce.

    Archive 2008-02-01 e 2008

  • His belief that he can stay in office by appealing to the membership over the heads of his colleagues is absurd.

    Charles Kennedy must resign 2006

  • The poor behavior of his colleagues is the responsibility of them, and them alone.

    David Heddle on the ID movement 2006

  • Another interesting article by one of my colleagues is a forthcoming article by my colleague Kathy Zeiler, co-authored with the legendary Charlie Plott, in the American Economic Review on the so-called “endowment effect.”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » THE “ENDOWMENT EFFECT” AND BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS: 2004

  • Focusing on what you can get out of your colleagues is the fastest way to sabotage your networking initiative.

    USATODAY.com - Demystifying the rules of networking 2002

  • For what should be a vibrant, all-absorbing political experiment, the great genius of the "colleagues" is transform issues of great importance and relevance to us all into an exercise in applied boredom.

    Two years old Richard 2006

  • He was so bored, he didn’t even bother to ask what the word colleagues meant.

    Final Theory Mark Alpert 2008

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