cohabits

Definition of cohabitsnext
present tense third-person singular of cohabit
as in lives
formal to share a home and have a sexual relationship They cohabited in a small apartment in the city.

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  • And Mike saw the difference his father made in his athletes’ lives at the wake.
    Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 9 Jan. 2026
  • While the Broncos and Seahawks will watch the chaos unfold at home, 12 teams will be battling for their playoff lives during NFL Wild Card weekend.
    Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 9 Jan. 2026
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  • Now, a Muscogee Nation citizen who resides and works within the reservation is asking the justices to rule that Oklahoma can’t tax her income.
    Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 12 Jan. 2026
  • In the unexposed areas, the biogel stem cell mixture remains, and this is where the potential for creating a functional human liver resides.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Jan. 2026
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  • The property occupies a sizable 6,868-square-foot lot.
    Bay Area Home Report, Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Hisense says cyan occupies a part of the spectrum where the human eye is especially sensitive, allowing the panel to render smoother gradients, more realistic tones and subtler transitions without oversaturation.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Jan. 2026
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  • Zambia While most safaris are about watching wildlife, Time + Tide Chongwe Camp can coordinate a quest to catch (and release) one of Africa’s aquatic apex predators, the tiger fish, which inhabits the Zambezi River.
    Kinsey Gidick, Travel + Leisure, 13 Jan. 2026
  • And that seemingly uninterrupted one-take is its own argument for the necessity of the medium to transport and astound us out of a banal world, one as banal as the one the Deliriant inhabits as civilization comes to its last gasp.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 12 Dec. 2025
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  • Its locking lid snaps onto a silicone ring, giving it an airtight seal so my butter stays fresh (and doesn’t absorb outside odors).
    Sian Babish, PEOPLE, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Each person captured stays about 47 days before they are deported, costing $7,065 per person.
    Susan-Elizabeth Littlefield, CBS News, 13 Jan. 2026
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“Cohabits.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cohabits. Accessed 19 Jan. 2026.

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