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

Even after years together — the play begins on their 10th anniversary — they are not only unable to marry but also even to cohabit in safety.

From New York Times ● May 8, 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

Aletti cohabits with thousands and thousands of magazines.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 15, 2019

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

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

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

Laws regarding cohabiting unmarried partners vary by state.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 16, 2026

Data show “nontraditional” families — those made up of single parents, single adults, cohabiting couples and stepfamilies — now outnumber “traditional” nuclear families in the United States.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024

Last year, UK law changed to afford cohabiting couples the same right.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 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