cohabit
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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
Sweden introduced an exemption allowing entry to those in a long-term relationship who intend to marry or cohabit with their Swedish partner.
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2020
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
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
DECEASED.—When married partners have lived in love truly conjugial, the spirit of the deceased cohabits continually with that of the survivor, and this even to the death of the latter, 321.
From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Emanuel Swedenborg
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
Everything I’ve tried has cohabited amicably with Mr. Park’s food.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2017
They always considered that one the legitimate wife with whom they naturally cohabited.
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
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