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 Long-Term Risks Of Moving In Too Soon Ultimately taking the leap of cohabiting too soon can lead to: Communication breakdowns. Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 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 In South Africa, for example, the share of children born to cohabiting parents doubled from nine to 18 percent between 1996 and 2011. W. Bradford Wilcox, Foreign Affairs, 14 Feb. 2017 See All Example Sentences for cohabit
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  • The dishes lived up to the hype, but my favorite part of the meal and the day was the company.
    Eve Chen, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The students had to decide who would die and who would live to raise the future of the human race.
    Sofia Barnett, Wired News, 18 Aug. 2025
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    Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 13 Aug. 2025
  • An identical Cash statue already resides in the National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Congress, where it was installed last year.
    Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 13 Aug. 2025

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“Cohabit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cohabit. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.

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