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cohabits

verb

present tense third-person singular of cohabit

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formal to share a home and have a sexual relationship They cohabited in a small apartment in the city.

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Vile lives near the Philly house that Sun Ra and the band called home, where 102-year-old saxophonist Marshall Allen still lives.

— Leah Lu, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2026
Records show that the pope is registered under his baptismal name, Robert Francis Prevost, to vote in the Chicago suburb of New Lenox, where his brother John lives.

— Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2026

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According to the researchers, formation accounts for roughly one-third of battery production costs and occupies about a quarter of a manufacturing facility’s floor space.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026
But the President had his eye on the 2026 midterm elections, which are typically tough for the party that occupies the White House.

— CBS News, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026

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An untitled 2026 work, featuring a bromeliad goddess, inhabits a different atmosphere.

— Tatiane de Assis, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2026
Food and drink Just off the courtyard, Capitulo restaurant inhabits the former chapter house, a beautiful space with vaulted ceilings, timeworn details, and a stylish, contemporary stunner of a bar.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026

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Demondice’s voice stays front and center, and the electronic riffs weave through both the percussion and vocals, ensuring the track sounds full outside of the understandably absent sub-bass.

— Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 3 Nov. 2026
Once the chat is locked, new information remembered from subsequent messages stays within the Locked Chats memory area.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2026

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