cohabitation

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Noun
  • The Druze, an Arab sect of roughly one million people, practice an offshoot of Islam which permits no converts – either to or from the religion – and no intermarriage.
    Eyad Kourdi, CNN Money, 17 July 2025
  • The first is primarily concerned with barring intermarriage and preventing the integration of Arabs and Jews, whether in schools or on soccer pitches; many support the soccer team Beitar Jerusalem, which remains the only team in the Israeli Premier League never to have fielded an Arab.
    Mitch Ginsburg, Foreign Affairs, 18 Feb. 2016
Noun
  • On top of that, Hollywood’s Hays Code prohibited miscegenation — no interracial romance whatsoever.
    Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2025
  • The drama is a subtle exploration of miscegenation, one of the core taboos that the LCO often clamped down on.
    Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • From 1975 to the present day, Ruf Automobile has had a symbiotic relationship with Porsche—until the past few years, Ruf used Porsche bodies in white as canvases to reflect his vision of performance and design.
    Christian Gilbertsen, Robb Report, 12 Aug. 2025
  • In 2009, a Supreme Court decision in Boyle v. United States specified that such an enterprise must have at least three structural attributes: purpose, established relationships among those associated with the group, and longevity.
    Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 12 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Married men and women having an affair ranked dead last in a 2022 Gallup poll of 19 behaviors, below polygamy and cloning humans, with 89% of Americans saying the affair is morally wrong.
    Joanna Allhands, AZCentral.com, 23 July 2025
  • His maternal grandmother raised him and his older brother, not entrusting them to one of his father’s three other wives (polygamy is common is South Sudanese culture).
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • At the age of 16, the offspring of mixed marriages had to choose one of their parents’ ethnicities.
    Robert Hornsby, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Betsey, 50, pleaded guilty to the felony bigamy charge in May, according to ABC Action News.
    Sean Neumann, People.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • But in her pursuit of everything, Alicia risks losing it all – because while female bigamy may not be a crime, the fallout can be life-altering.
    Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 31 July 2025
Noun
  • The project was part of a $1 billion modernization program. 2011: For the first time in Illinois history, gay and lesbian couples obtained civil unions.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2025
  • Benefits — other than the merchandise discounts — applied to both former commissioners and eligible family members, including spouses or civil union partners and dependent children up to age 21.
    Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025
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“Cohabitation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cohabitation. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.

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