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to occur or exist at the same time
two nations that should be able to coexist without conflict
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Recent Examples of coexists
If that’s accurate, the trait clearly coexists with exhibitionism and pugnaciousness.
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Ian Parker, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
Walker Preserve Getting out in nature in San Diego County is easy with open spaces like the Walker Preserve, where wildlife coexists alongside neighborhoods and businesses.
—Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Dec. 2025
In a store like Fresh Thyme, everything coexists or is conveniently organized to make shopping easy and a pleasure on each visit.
—Matt Emma, USA Today, 8 Dec. 2025
Today, hunger is driven less by scarcity than by barriers to accessing food in a world where abundance coexists with staggering deprivation.
—Arif Husain, Foreign Affairs, 11 Nov. 2025
In these ecosystems, competition coexists with cooperation.
—Edyta Pacuk, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Ian Parker, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
Walker Preserve Getting out in nature in San Diego County is easy with open spaces like the Walker Preserve, where wildlife coexists alongside neighborhoods and businesses.
—Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Dec. 2025
In a store like Fresh Thyme, everything coexists or is conveniently organized to make shopping easy and a pleasure on each visit.
—Matt Emma, USA Today, 8 Dec. 2025
Today, hunger is driven less by scarcity than by barriers to accessing food in a world where abundance coexists with staggering deprivation.
—Arif Husain, Foreign Affairs, 11 Nov. 2025
In these ecosystems, competition coexists with cooperation.
—Edyta Pacuk, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coexists
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Net profit margin is just one way of slicing and dicing all the data that accompanies earnings, of course, and some other measurements are a bit less rosy, Butters pointed out.—
Andrea Riquier,
USA Today,
1 Feb. 2026
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Barrows manages the future sovereign's schedule, and accompanies her to the various appointments she is called upon to attend.—
Laura Scafati,
Vanity Fair,
31 Jan. 2026
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The designation coincides with the 140th anniversary of France-Korea diplomatic relations, dating to the 1886 Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
3 Feb. 2026
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In Mendonça’s work, political commentary coincides with art-house aesthetics and elements borrowed from genre movies—science fiction, Western, neo-noir.—
Stephania Taladrid,
New Yorker,
1 Feb. 2026
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“Coexists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coexists. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.
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