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coexist

[koh-ig-zist] / ˌkoʊ ɪgˈzɪst /
VERB
exist together
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The cone of silence around the wedding is the only place in which these dueling Swifts can freely coexist.

From Salon Jul. 9, 2026

A conservation approach once praised as a global model for helping people and predators coexist may be losing ground because of a lack of long-term government support, according to new research.

From Science Daily Jun. 1, 2026

Galaxy Corporation, the entertainment company behind the display, said it was meant to ask: "How can humans and robots coexist?"

From Barron's May 29, 2026

At one point Neriya and her companions are ushered into the sanctum sanctorum of a corvid roost, where thousands if not millions of crows coexist in sophisticated collaboration.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

Institutional dourness and cheerful domesticity coexist on the fourth floor of the Finney County Courthouse.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

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

The frondescent petals are very often completely disjoined, as in Verbascum nigrum, and Lonicera Periclymenum, in which, moreover, median prolification generally coexists.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.

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

It has coexisted uneasily with the principles of the Declaration.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 15, 2026

Over the decades, the refinery and the city have coexisted, mostly without drama.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 3, 2025

Therefore, two realities coexisted: The cat lived, and the cat died.

From Salon Jan. 17, 2025

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

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

The fact that there’s two personalities coexisting is what makes that whole thing really sing.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 30, 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

"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

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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