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coexist

[koh-ig-zist] / ˌkoʊ ɪgˈzɪst /
VERB
exist together
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In certain quantum materials, different phases can also coexist, although the underlying behavior is far more complex.

From Science Daily Aug. 20, 2026

"We will have to learn to coexist with the floods."

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

This place has an odd, accommodating kinship with these prehistoric monsters, a willingness to coexist rather than eliminate what would kill us.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

The cone of silence that’s followed the wedding is the only place in which these dueling Swifts can freely coexist.

From Salon Jul. 9, 2026

That would spell the end of everything, unless the Mud People had learned to coexist with other species.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

French-language newspaper El Watan said the "symbolic" visit was "of great historical significance in a country where ancient Christian memory coexists with the Muslim reality of today".

From Barron's Feb. 26, 2026

Venezuela isn’t like Mexico, where a state coexists uneasily with cartels.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 6, 2026

Meanwhile, parents and experts say schools neglect students with math disabilities like dyscalculia, which affects up to 7% of the population and often coexists with dyslexia.

From Washington Times Oct. 17, 2023

The Octavia Lab, where one can explore virtual reality and design PCB circuit boards, coexists with scenes like that of a woman yelling uncontrollably in the history department.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 9, 2023

There is a Puritanical dislike of waste which is a very different thing, because it often coexists with an extreme attachment to the particular standard of comfort that the man himself prefers.

From Where No Fear Was by Arthur Christopher Benson

In its most recent appeal in June of this year, the Irish chain argued both it and McDonald's had coexisted in Ireland for around 40 years and there had been no evidence of confusion.

From BBC Aug. 7, 2026

For centuries, this city has been a multiethnic melting pot where European and African, Muslim and Christian cultures converged, and coexisted mostly peacefully.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 2026

Those two things coexisted for a while, but not for long.

From Salon Jun. 30, 2026

"Kank coexisted with larger carnivores such as Maip macrothorax, a formidable megaraptorid dinosaur more than 10 metres long, which may have been capable of preying upon it," Dr. Motta adds.

From Science Daily May 29, 2026

He rejected the notion that animals and plants suffered sudden annihilations, and believed that all the principal animal groups–mammals, reptiles, fish, and so on–had coexisted since the dawn of time.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

Instead, scientists will target gases coexisting in ways that can’t be explained by geology alone.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 23, 2026

This means two species had been coexisting unnoticed until one appeared farther north in Tohoku.

From Science Daily Nov. 1, 2025

Having such a tangible way to witness creation left a deep impression on me, to be in such an exuberant forest coexisting with so much.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2025

In his fall 1971 convocation address at the University of Alberta, McLuhan told students that in an electronic world, people become “discarnate data, a sort of disembodied spirit coexisting and functioning simultaneously in diverse locations.”

From Slate Jul. 28, 2025

I realized my family loved me very much and this world could be such a great place to live if you just realized the structure for coexisting with the other five billion inhabitants.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers




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