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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  • The local splash pad mimics a quilting square that resides at the Wilkes Heritage Museum, and the Comity Cabin hosts several quilt-centric retreats each year.
    Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Sinners is currently ranked fifth in domestic box office for 2025 with $278 million; One Battle After Another didn’t do nearly as well but still resides inside the top 25 movies of the year with $68 million and counting.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025
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  • Brands like Attersee and Sophie Bille Brahe have shops on an upper-level floor, while Adam Lippes’ uptown salon-style location occupies the main floor of a Georgian mansion on Fifth Avenue.
    Kathy Lee, Footwear News, 11 Nov. 2025
  • How to get to Galveston Galveston occupies most of an island about two miles off mainland Texas.
    Nathan Diller, USA Today, 10 Nov. 2025
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  • Now 30, Deutch fully inhabits the complicated Seberg during the tumultuous filming of Jean-Luc Godard’s revolutionary 1960 masterpiece.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Fans have been tearing the new Springfield Island map apart to unearth Easter eggs and hidden gags, including a full dissection of the notorious wonky house that the family inhabits.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2025
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  • The couple that superheroes together stays together?
    Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Nov. 2025
  • They’re made with a breathable satin material that stays cool throughout the night and have a side zipper to keep them from slipping off pillows.
    Rylee Johnston, PEOPLE, 11 Nov. 2025
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