cohabit

A jarring clang of cruelty and playfulness cohabit in a single work.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2023

That in turn drew in wildcats, and, “Natural selection favored those wildcats that were able to cohabit with humans.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2023

You have the right to cohabit with someone who demonstrates the willingness to bathe — for your sake, if not for his own.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2022

“Animals that wouldn’t normally cohabit are actually forced together because there is so little habitat.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2022

This meant not only that we were learning, in a real way, how to cohabit as a couple but also that Barack got to know my family in a more intimate way.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Cassie lives in Silicon Valley, where great privilege cohabits with poverty and despair, and works at a start-up that promises her the world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2023

Team Richmond cohabits with another IMT unit, Team Prospect, run by the same nonprofit, the Institute for Community Living.

From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2023

An old woman called Miss Ulyana cohabits with a prosperous old peasant in exile.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 11, 2017

Waddoups ordered "or cohabits with another person" be deleted and narrowed the meaning of "purports to marry" but allowed a ban on multiple marriage licenses.

From US News ● Apr. 11, 2016

If he cohabits with her by her consent her parents may compel him to marry her, either by jujur or semando, as they please.

From The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by William Marsden

Had I not just cohabited with “Ulysses” for the last month, I no doubt would have spent the intermission reading chapter summaries on my phone to get a deeper understanding of the story.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2025

As in many of his buildings, he used the detail to violate the building’s overall system of control — the irrational cohabited with the rational.

From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2022

When Modi was thirteen, his parents arranged for him to marry a local girl, but they cohabited only briefly, and he did not publicly acknowledge the relationship for many years.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2019

In a society where female employment options were drastically limited, poor women separated from their husbands or otherwise unable to marry often cohabited with men as a matter of economic necessity.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2019

I then performed the marriage ceremony, and cohabited with her; she also became pregnant and brought forth a son.

From Bagh O Bahar, or Tales of the Four Darweshes by Duncan Forbes

The report sorted American households into seven distinct family structures: intact married, single parent, blended, unmarried biological or adoptive, cohabiting, extended and other.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

But while they are still the majority, the share of those with joint bank accounts declined to roughly 77% of married, cohabiting couples.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 30, 2026

He testified that the couple had been married for 20 years and were cohabiting “under the same roof” but were living separate lives then and dating other people.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2024

"It almost felt like a pressure to go back into cohabiting after having had my own space. That almost felt like stepping into something new and unknown again."

From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2024

Desperation, deep poverty, and illiteracy drove women to take the risk of cohabiting with men such as truck drivers and soldiers, those with steady jobs or who wielded the power of intimidation.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French