Thesaurus results for CONFRERES

confreres

noun

variants also confrères

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plural of confrere

as in colleagues

a fellow worker many of the judge's confreres on the Fifth Circuit bench don't feel as she does on the issue

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Recent Examples of confreres The elegant bones of this iconic property—once the martini-marinated playground of Sinatra and his Rat Pack confreres—remain unmistakably intact. —

David Weiss, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025

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colleagues

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To reach the site, study lead author Scott Evans, a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History, and his colleagues embarked on a 14-hour drive and a helicopter flight.

— Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 20 May 2026
Babydog, whose fame has captured the hearts of many supporters and colleagues on Capitol Hill — even starring in political ads for Justice — is seen in a video on her official X account.

— Britta Miller, The Washington Examiner, 20 May 2026