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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  • About 20 living hostages remain captive in desperate conditions, Israeli officials say, and about 25 more are believed to have died, but their bodies have not been returned to their families.
    Susan Page, USA Today, 5 Oct. 2025
  • But those who depend on the status to live and work in the United States decried the development.
    Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 4 Oct. 2025
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  • Cookie who is believed to be a mix of a Labrador and American Staffordshire terrier is currently residing at Ingle’s in Brooklyn, New York, until she is adopted.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Now, the 35-year-old resides in Portugal's capital, Lisbon, with her partner, Swiss artist-filmmaker Tobias Madison, and their newborn child.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025

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“Cohabit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cohabit. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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