cohabits

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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  • In Brazil, nearly 90% of electricity now comes from clean energy sources, enabling communities from São Paulo to small towns in the Amazon to power their daily lives with renewables.
    Alexis Abramson, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Pop culture is filled with images of Rio de Janeiro, and while the Cidade Maravilhosa (Marvelous City) certainly lives up to its name, movies and song lyrics rarely capture the real reasons why.
    Aaron Randolph, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2025
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  • International organizations and local fund-raising groups where the Jamaican diaspora resides abroad are among the groups jumping in to assist victims of Hurricane Melissa.
    Terry Ward, AFAR Media, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The black hole in which our previous outrage resides is vast.
    Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2025
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  • Traditional philanthropy, once external to profit structures, now occupies the core of Magnolia Pearl’s identity.
    Maria Williams, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Its Amsterdam location, for example, opened this year, occupies the city’s former Palace of Justice, originally built in 1665.
    Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 4 Nov. 2025
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  • The children aren’t sure yet what this will mean to them, and Durst inhabits that uncertainty alongside them.
    Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The new species inhabits an incredibly small range, leaving it at risk of habitat changes despite living inside a nature reserve, according to the study.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2025
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  • Luca stays present in the moment.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Chesney stays grounded, grateful and faithful, in pursuit of the simple joys in life, living largely by the mantra of his memoir, .
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
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