cohabit

as in to live
formal to share a home and have a sexual relationship They cohabited in a small apartment in the city.

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Recent Examples of cohabit Reddit contributors felt that short breaks from constant interaction are a normal and necessary part of cohabiting, amid around 200 comments in a day online. Darlin Tillery, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 June 2025 The rest of the town of Seabrook had also become comfortable cohabiting with humans, zombies and werewolves after years of Zed and Addison trying to find peace. Caroline Blair, People.com, 9 May 2025 That’s because those cohabiting birds are the protagonists of a deceptively simple mathematical theorem called the pigeonhole principle. Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 4 Apr. 2025 Watching the two of them on screen together, still cohabiting despite the impending split, is peak secondhand discomfort. Shelby Stewart, Essence, 31 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cohabit
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  • Many channels claim to show eclipses live, but just use old footage from past events.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • On its western shore in the town of Gardone Riviera, Grand Hotel Fasano is a living piece of history.
    Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 7 Sep. 2025
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  • In the summer of 2024, hundreds of people gathered in Allegawaho Memorial Heritage Park in Council Grove, KS–about 80 miles southwest of Lawrence–a park owned by Kaw Nation that includes one of the three Kaw villages where Kanza people resided from the 1840s to 1872.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The film was backed by Luxembourg and France, has French producers, and Panahi resides in Paris four months a year.
    Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Cohabit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cohabit. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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