cohabit
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Each of those gets a gallery where very different works by very different artists cohabit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 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
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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
The black-fox is only less elusive than the black tulip or the blue rose, and yet he inhabits the same section and cohabits often the same burrow with the red and the cross-fox.
From The New North by Agnes Deans Cameron
Native Americans more or less cohabited peaceably with the grizzlies, each usually giving the other wide berth, at a mid-19th century ratio of about 10,000 California grizzlies to 130,000 native Americans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Whatever common ground he cohabited with mortals like us was ceded sometime back in the mid-aughts after his third Super Bowl title in four years or his epochal 2007 campaign.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 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
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
This man was visited by his mother and a poor, ignorant woman with whom he cohabited.
From The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth by George Alfred Townsend
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 and co-ownership vary by state.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 16, 2026
Mabel 1 was used to fly to and from Foy’s glove, and for much of the action depicting Helen cohabiting with Mabel in her house.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025
"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
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