Thesaurus results for COHORTS

cohorts

noun

plural of cohort

as in associates

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

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Recent Examples of cohorts As younger cohorts move into peak parenting years, the NRF’s June baseline is likely to keep climbing past the one-third mark. — Ashley Lynch, Charlotte Observer, 26 Aug. 2026 This is especially true for retailers targeting younger cohorts. — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 26 Aug. 2026 Then Zoll and his cohorts evaluate the trade market to see which of those players might be available. — Dan Hayes, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2026 In a second interview, Dupree testified Davis stated that his nephew Orlando Anderson had been jumped, spurring Davis and cohorts on a hunt for revenge against Shakur. — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026 The preschool data was collected about 20 years ago, following five cohorts from 2002 to 2007. — Austin Horn, Miami Herald, 20 Aug. 2026 The report spans 2,000 nationally representative millennials, divided into three equally sized cohorts — elder, core and younger — with comparison samples of 500 Gen X and 500 Baby Boomers. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2026 Diverse student cohorts should be co-designing tomorrow’s educational tools, AI ethics councils, and the transparent policies that determine whether data collection serves surveillance or care. — Ann Kirschner, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026 The same support pours in from Papa’s vast Bay Area cohorts, from every corner of media to every level of the pro teams, especially those around the 49ers, who have called him their play-by-play man since 2019. — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2026

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Beck didn’t participate in the book, but Riesman finds enough friends, family and associates to assemble a complex portrait of an artist who wants his audiences to see him as fashion-forward but has had a hard time shaking his past.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026
John Giusti, a chiropractor with an independent practice outside Dallas and Forth Worth, was found dead on Monday, friends and business associates said on social media.

— N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026

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And because nobody washed the dishes before tossing them into the feasting pit, King and his colleagues (in a 2017 study) could analyze the microscopic residue of ancient drinks that had soaked into the ceramic.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 27 Aug. 2026
Whether El Niño will continue to strengthen is something Cole and her colleagues’ records can’t answer, but scientists are using climate models to try to puzzle that out.

— Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of colleagues

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For those who have not been identified, negative feedback from adults and peers can further depress self-esteem.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
The bottom line is that GPC has done a good job of bottoming this year, forming a bullish pattern, outperforming its major peers, and approaching a potential breakout from a multi-year relative downtrend versus XLY.

— Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026

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In the weeks since her son died during a Fourth of July boating trip with friends, Christine Wells-Wonsley and her husband, Elmore, have become a fixture at the civil rights attorney’s side.

— Ryan Young, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026
Afterward, a few friends made the half-mile trek east to the Mabee Center on the edge of campus.

— Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of friends

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Our hunting and conservation editor and his buddies chartered a helicopter to fly into an area of public land that was surrounded by private ranches.

— Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 26 Aug. 2026
Mel might be a disaster with her loud mouth and impolite antics, but her over-the-top meddling does her buddies some good.

— Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026

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