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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  • Under the agreement, accepted by both parties this week, Hamas will return all living hostages—believed to be around 20—in exchange for roughly 250 Palestinian prisoners serving life sentences and about 1,700 detainees from Gaza.
    Eric Cortellessa, Time, 11 Oct. 2025
  • In January, the US president exerted decisive pressure on Netanyahu to accept a deal that brought 30 of the living hostages and eight deceased hostages home.
    Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
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  • Neptune and Jackie will be residing in tanks near each other, but not in the same habitat.
    Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Adolpho Veloso, the film’s cinematographer who was raised in Brazil and now resides in Portugal, was sent the script and connected to it immediately.
    Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025

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