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fellow worker — especially in a respected profession such as teaching, medicine, or law
- More nervous than on his wedding day, her family filling one side of the church, and on the other just a handful of his colleagues.p. 11.9
- "I called Bentley before we left," he said, naming his colleague, an obstetrician.p. 11.4
- Or what if she'd been born as she was, simply herself, and their father had not raised his eyes to Caroline Gill, snow falling in the world outside and his colleague in a ditch?p. 399.2
There are no more uses of "colleague" in The Memory Keeper’s Daughter.
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