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Recent Examples of cohabitation
Humans have always ingested endophytes given that endophyte–plant cohabitation goes back hundreds of millions of years, and endophytes contribute to our gut microbiome.
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Anna Marija Helt, JSTOR Daily, 17 Sep. 2025
But the definition of commitment is shifting as more couples choose nonmarital cohabitation, and as relationships become increasingly individualized.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Established in 18 cities around the globe, the living arrangements provide a heightened and aesthetically pleasing cohabitation space where personal areas are smaller, focusing instead on common spaces.
—Angela Andaloro, People.com, 18 Aug. 2025
But, as the charity Dogs Trust says, peaceful cohabitation is possible when introductions are handled carefully.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
This unexpected cohabitation brings emotional turmoil but also a new view on love and life for the retiree who had become stuck in his ways.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2025
Anna Marija Helt, JSTOR Daily, 17 Sep. 2025
But the definition of commitment is shifting as more couples choose nonmarital cohabitation, and as relationships become increasingly individualized.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Established in 18 cities around the globe, the living arrangements provide a heightened and aesthetically pleasing cohabitation space where personal areas are smaller, focusing instead on common spaces.
—Angela Andaloro, People.com, 18 Aug. 2025
But, as the charity Dogs Trust says, peaceful cohabitation is possible when introductions are handled carefully.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
This unexpected cohabitation brings emotional turmoil but also a new view on love and life for the retiree who had become stuck in his ways.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cohabitation
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The Princess Royal married her second and current husband, Sir Timothy Laurence, at Crathie Kirk in December 1992, as the Church of England did not allow for remarriage after divorce at the time.—
Meredith Kile,
People.com,
18 Aug. 2025
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Adultery remains adultery, and the Catholic Church still does not recognize divorce and remarriage.—
Massimo Faggioli,
Foreign Affairs,
30 Nov. 2018
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Not only Israel but the United States would protect Jews against another Shoah. Assimilation, intermarriage, the move away from Jewish neighborhoods, and the weakening of religious ties all made the fate of Israel and the memory of the Holocaust more central to secular Jewish identity.—
Ian Buruma,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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By the Eighties, almost half of all Jews were marrying non-Jews, and worry over the long-term implications of intermarriage had become its own cottage industry.—
Daniel May,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
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The press, however—fearing backlash to its positive depiction of interracial romance—rewrote the conclusion without Grey’s knowledge or consent, killing off Nophaie and the offending prospect of miscegenation.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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The taboo of miscegenation makes up the body of the pagan cynocephalus, wherein religious difference is figured as racial difference, and, remarkably, as species difference (or crisis).—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
28 Aug. 2025
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Also, like Johnson, the station chief had an unusually friendly relationship with Bukele.—
T. Christian Miller,
ProPublica,
30 Sep. 2025
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Aside from the amphitheater’s good-natured janitor Beppo (Kim Bodnia), Momo’s most meaningful relationship is her friendship with Gino (Araloyin Oshunremi), a teenager working multiple jobs to help his mother Liliana (Jennifer Amaka Pettersson) support his siblings.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
30 Sep. 2025
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Mormons have also sometimes been falsely stereotyped as being polygamists because some of their early founders and members were, but the group banned polygamy in 1890.—
Niraj Warikoo,
Freep.com,
29 Sep. 2025
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They were settled by members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, who were known for practicing polygamy.—
Stephanie Innes,
AZCentral.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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Of the educationally mixed marriages, the majority—62 percent—were hypogamous, up from 39 percent in 1980.—
Stephanie H. Murray,
The Atlantic,
31 Mar. 2025
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Edgar’s absorbing historical study of intermarriage is based on policy documents, Soviet ethnographic research, and over 80 in-depth interviews with members of mixed marriages and their adult children in the ethnically diverse Soviet republic of Kazakhstan and less diverse Tajikistan.—
Robert Hornsby,
Foreign Affairs,
24 Oct. 2023
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For generations, anthropologists have argued whether humans are evolved for monogamy or some other mating system, such as polygyny, polyandry or promiscuity.—
Nathan H. Lents,
Smithsonian Magazine,
11 Apr. 2025
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For generations, anthropologists have argued whether humans are evolved for monogamy or some other mating system, such as polygyny, polyandry or promiscuity.—
Jonathan Granoff,
Newsweek,
29 Jan. 2025
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North Carolina classifies bigamy as a Class I felony, and the charge can result in imprisonment for anyone who knowingly marries while still legally married to another person.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
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Three wives in three counties may just be the start for a man facing felony bigamy charges in North Carolina, investigators say.—
Mark Price,
Charlotte Observer,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Cohabitation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cohabitation. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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