coexistence
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That long coexistence changed dramatically 66 million years ago, when an asteroid struck Earth and triggered a global mass extinction.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
McDonald's, in reply, claimed the issue of coexistence was irrelevant, adding the issue to be decided was "whether there exists a conflict in the European Union".
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
DuVernay recognizes a similar coexistence in the artist herself: “She has both curiosity and fire in her eyes and smile.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
That coexistence is made easier by the disposition of the animals, which evolved to be mostly oblivious to unnatural human dangers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Failure to contain Pauling might result in a London press conference with Linus expounding peaceful coexistence.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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Maintenance of the necessity, whether of sequences or of coexistences, is commonly thought rather a derogation from divine power than otherwise.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Herbert Spencer
And it cannot be doubted that between phenomena which are themselves effects, the coexistences must necessarily depend on the causes of those phenomena.
From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by John Stuart Mill
Adding this all-important characteristic, our conception of life becomes—the definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
In fact, without this power, our knowledge of Nature would be a mere tabulation of coexistences and sequences.
From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Irwin Edman
That certainty which direct perception gives us respecting coexistences and sequences of the simplest and most accessible kind, science gives us respecting coexistences and sequences, complex in their dependencies or inaccessible to immediate observation.
From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer