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Definition
fellow worker — especially in a respected profession such as teaching, medicine, or law
- My colleagues in medical school accused me of cynicism but they had no idea.Book 6 — Song of the Children (67% in)
- My colleagues accuse me of cynicism, but I am simply a victim of poetry.Book 6 — Song of the Children (81% in)
- Sometimes I play chess with one of my colleagues, an anchorite like myself, who suffers from post-polio syndrome.Book 6 — Song of the Children (92% in)
There are no more uses of "colleague" in The Poisonwood Bible.
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