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 While official passenger manifests and exact arrival times were closely guarded, local sources indicated the inaugural cohort consisted largely of South American nationals. — ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026 Avelino Delgado, a sixty-eight-year-old rancher who lives alone on his land, without an internet connection or a phone, belongs to this cohort. — Jordan Salama, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026 Similarly, other research showed how marketing to the millennial generation meant conceptualizing that cohort as being eager to divulge their lives online. — Michael Serazio, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026 These are some of the longest-running cohort (or group) studies ever undertaken, aimed at tracking how diet and lifestyle affect long-term health and disease risk. — Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 9 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cohort

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Noun

Sara Matar, formerly the division’s chief of staff, joined the White House counsel’s office in August as an associate.

— Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 14 Oct. 2026
Clients and friends of Moncler, students from Parsons School of Design, and members of Leibovitz’s circle of friends and associates, will be attending.

— David Moin, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of associate

Noun

Wang failed her first attempt to defend her dissertation and became envious of her colleague's success in discovering how to deliver RNA to human cells using bacteria, Gomelsky told The Associated Press.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2026
New Skydance content sales chief David Decker was all smiles at the WBD stand, able to look over and see his new Paramount colleagues just along the beachfront.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of colleague

Noun

The influence of Black American music was absent from not just their Warwickshire peers at the time, but all of the dour indie milieu toiling under Thatcher’s grey skies.

— Gabriel Szatan, Pitchfork, 18 Oct. 2026
Fifty percent plan to increase investment, compared with 18% of boomer owners, and 71% expect revenue growth, versus 51% of their older peers.

— Muskaan Arshad, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of peer

Noun

Took a fellow once who insisted on carrying a pretty automatic.

— Gerald R. Hunter, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2026
Images in the collection capture Ball and Arnaz; Pugh, Carroll and fellow Jess Oppenheimer; cinematographer Karl Freund; and audience members, execs and family who visited the Hollywood set during the CBS series’ six-season run through May 1957.

— Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of fellow

Noun

The friend and my father took my older sister and me out for a walk, and, at a nearby schoolyard, the man hung the camera on an exercise bar.

— Yiyun Li, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2026
May his struggles never dim the memories of a sweet man, a dear friend, and a master musician.

— Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of friend

Noun

Keith David, Macon Blair, Killer Mike, Cody Lightning, Siena East, and Michael Hitchcock all return as some of Lee’s Tulsa-area buddies, employees, and resentful acquaintances.

— Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026
Mitt’s old fishing buddy Hewey (John Ortiz) tells Jay that his father plunged into the ocean at the edge of a steep underwater canyon off Monastery Beach, so that’s where Jay is headed.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of buddy

Noun

Maybe not, but like its classmate, Curry Barker’s Obsession (now on Peacock), this extremely strong debut of a young YouTube auteur seems just as historically significant as some of the other innovations here.

— Eve Batey, Vanity Fair, 16 Oct. 2026
After the woman refused to speak with him again, Hudson sent images of the assault to one of her former classmates.

— Gabriella Ybarra, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Oct. 2026

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