Thesaurus results for COHORT

cohort

noun

ˈkō-ˌhȯrt

Definition of cohort

as in associate

a person frequently seen in the company of another if you're trying to give up drinking, your cohorts shouldn't be confirmed party animals

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as in accomplice

one associated with another in wrongdoing she and her cohorts were arrested for shoplifting

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Recent Examples of cohort That’s the math that brings performers from the latest cohort of the Chicago Black Dance Legacy Project to the Harris Theater for Music and Dance at the end of the month. — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026 Another caveat, Chesnut pointed out, was the average age of the cohort. — Becky Sullivan, NPR, 25 Aug. 2026 But still, Hoffmann is one of the only figures in the Jewish Museum show to have stayed in Vienna through World War II and survived—which is always a clue for this cohort. — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 24 Aug. 2026 Initiatives like microcredentialing programs, unemployment insurance, and portable benefits could limit the severity of future labor market downturns by supporting this growing cohort of workers. — Noah Yosif, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cohort

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Noun

The images — found in a search by The Washington Post — follow other controversial actions and rhetoric from former Collins staffers and other Collins associates that have dogged his Senate campaign.

— Liz Goodwin, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2026
Wolfe allegedly tipped off three associates who together made about $515,000 in unrealized profits.

— Chase Jordan August 27, Charlotte Observer, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of associate

Noun

Carlile shared the stage with Parton, and her colleagues in the Highwomen, at the 2019 Newport Folk Festival.

— Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2026
My colleague Bruce Feldman has been talking up the Wolfpack all offseason, due in large part to stud QB CJ Bailey and RB Duke Scott, who had 947 all-purpose yards as a freshman.

— Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of colleague

Noun

Trout and Neto reached out to an unnamed Rams player on Tuesday to gather intel on their new owner, who has a sterling reputation amongst his NFL peers.

— Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2026
Unlike some of its contemporary peers, AllSaints is not rushing back to the runway.

— Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of peer

Noun

Other than Bessent’s comments, there few details on specific actions, said Jodie Wen, postdoctoral fellow at the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS), Tsinghua University.

— Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
This month alone, Google DeepMind lost Jeff Dean, the company’s long-time chief scientist and a 27-year veteran, alongside senior fellow Sanjay Ghemawat and researchers Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le, who left to launch a startup called Discovery Loop.

— Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of fellow

Noun

Elgin Police Chief Ana Lalley estended her condolences to victim’s friends and family.

— Elgin Courier-News, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2026
More messages arrived over Discord, X, WhatsApp, and even from a colleague who had been asked by a friend to see whether Fabian would correct his story to say that the explosion had been caused by interceptor fragments.

— Finn Brunton, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of friend

Noun

Despite Bret’s passionate insistence that his classmate is a serial killer, Croft tells him Robert is a good kid from a good family and sends him back to class.

— Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026
On the cool, overcast October day of my matriculation into the university in 2019, my classmates and I walked onto Selwyn College’s Old Court, excited and taking pictures of each other in our traditional robes.

— Jill Damatac, Vogue, 27 Aug. 2026

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