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coexist

[koh-ig-zist] / ˌkoʊ ɪgˈzɪst /
VERB
exist together
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More specialists can coexist with lower overall labor requirements.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

Inside the digestive system, bacteria coexist in large, interconnected communities.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

These dangers can coexist, but they have different implications for AI regulation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Elliot Newton, director of rewilding at conservation group Citizen Zoo, said the new kits showed beavers could "coexist with people in the heart of urban London".

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Two souls cannot coexist within the same body, Meir had told me, and maybe he was right.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Coimbra believes that this religious mix coexists well in Uruguay.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

This theme coexists alongside the church’s support of legitimate defense, and “there may be some tension between them,” said Philpott.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 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

Mauritanians’ openness to divorce — which seems so modern — coexists with very traditional practices around first marriages.

From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2023

Such an attitude may be out of date in this cosmopolitan age, but it is not unpleasant to strike against it; it coexists with the kindest of welcomes, the warmest of hospitalities.

From The Cornwall Coast by Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie) Salmon

"Back then, the settlers were living alongside us, and we coexisted peacefully. They lived their lives and we lived ours," he told me.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026

Both aspects have coexisted for centuries, but the great popularization of the personality side gave rise to a new form of discrimination, astrological prejudice.

From Slate ● May 5, 2026

"By showing how color variants that have coexisted for millions of years are wiped out, we now better understand how the emergence of new traits changes competition in nature," concludes Tobias Uller.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 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

Gauna hopes his videos help educate people about the importance of coexisting with sharks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

Many locals who are used to coexisting with the sharks think it’s all a big hullabaloo, too.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

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

"That paradox - of cruelty and warmth coexisting - is what made the finale so moving," said Mr Jeong, the film blogger.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2025

At some point my mom moved to a separate bedroom in the house, and from then on they were married in name only, not even cohabitating but coexisting.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah


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