Thesaurus results for COHABITING

cohabiting

verb

present participle of cohabit

as in living

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 cohabiting Unemployed single parents or cohabiting couples would not qualify. — Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 8 Sep. 2026 Sending a kid off to college usually meant an end to cohabiting with them under the same roof. — The Week Us, TheWeek, 21 Aug. 2026 Despite the benefits, young adults have mixed feelings about cohabiting with their parents. — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 16 Aug. 2026 In the typical married or cohabiting straight couple, women still do much more of the domestic labor—even when the woman is the breadwinner. — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2026 Talking through everyday responsibilities and standards for shared spaces helps prevent many of the conflicts couples report in their first year of cohabiting. — Ashley Lynch, Charlotte Observer, 29 July 2026 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 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 Sometimes, cohabiting cats need a period time to get used to one another. — Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025

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The model excludes the influence of living organisms, allowing scientists to examine how a planet’s systems could evolve without biology.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2026
The series follows survivors living at a fortified prepper compound in the Rocky Mountains known as The Homestead after a nuclear attack on LA plunges the country into chaos.

— Ashley Hume , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2026

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The couple married the next year, briefly residing in an NYC apartment before returning to raise their daughters, born in 1984 and in 1987, in Cowles’s childhood home.

— Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 29 Oct. 2026
On Monday, Romania’s anti-organized crime agency, DIICOT, said that three foreign nationals — two Belarusians and one Ukrainian, all residing in European Union countries — were being investigated in connection with the fire in Brasov.

— Stephen McGrath, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026

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