Thesaurus results for COHABIT

cohabit

verb

Definition of 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 The Mavericks and Stars have shared venues since the Stars moved to Dallas from Minneapolis in 1993, previously cohabiting the Reunion Arena. — Nick Wooten, Dallas Morning News, 27 Feb. 2026 Larry has cohabited, sometimes uneasily, with prime ministerial pets including Boris Johnson’s Jack Russell cross Dilyn and Rishi Sunak’s Labrador retriever Nova. — Jill Lawless, Chicago Tribune, 15 Feb. 2026 The camp is also designated as being for cohabiting couples with children. — Kate Perez, USA Today, 11 Feb. 2026 Today, rural children are less likely than urban children to live with married parents and are more likely to live with cohabiting unmarried parents or in the care of grandparents or other relatives. — Tim Slack, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cohabit

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The gap between what the league promises on paper and what a domestic player actually experiences on the ground is where the real work of building a sport lives.

— Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2026
Officers also interviewed his daughter, Lina Alvarado, 19, and girlfriend, Mely Mendoza, 38, who live at the house.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Aug. 2026

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There’s ghosts, there’s futures, there’s residue in this building—there’s sweat from colonial histories that reside in brick and concrete for centuries.

— Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 6 Aug. 2026
The Silo Cooking School, the Hendersons’ house, barns and several additional homes on the property, are overseen and operated by the Hunt Hill Farm Trust/The Silo president, Alessandro Piovezahn, who resides on the property with his family.

— Emily M. Olson, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2026

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