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cohabit

[koh-hab-it] / koʊˈhæb ɪt /


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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

France's Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly said that "we will not be able to cohabit with mercenaries".

From BBC Feb. 17, 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

Langdon is of the opinion that these dreams are recounted to Enkidu by a woman with whom Enkidu cohabits for six days and seven nights and who weans Enkidu from association with animals.

From An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic by Jastrow, Morris

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

You cohabited away the luxury of not wanting kids.

From Washington Post Jul. 1, 2020

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

Mr. Hiatt, 61, has had no problem acclimating to the elder-statesman phase of his esteemed troubadour career, in which the blues always cohabited with country, folk and rock ’n’ roll.

From New York Times Jul. 14, 2014

During the space he led this life he cohabited with one Amy Fowles, who passed for his wife and bore him several children.

From Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences by Hayward, Arthur L.

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

Laws regarding cohabiting unmarried partners vary by state.

From MarketWatch Apr. 16, 2026

"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

The federal agency said an annual survey of family living arrangements found the tally of children under age 18 who lived with cohabiting parents jumped from 2.2 million in 2007 to 3.2 million this year.

From Washington Times Nov. 21, 2023

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




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