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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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Fostering gives cats a temporary home on the way to adoption, alleviating stress on shelters and, in some instances, saving cats’ lives.

— Emily Tarinelli, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Jupiter Island, farther north in Martin County where golfer Tiger Woods lives, has another concentration of large ocean-to-Intracoastal estates.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2026

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Just eighteen months ago, the prefecture of Calvados, where the tapestry resides, uploaded a video that reportedly emphasized this point.

— John Phipps, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
The franchise legally resides in Utah, which has one of the lowest minimum wage laws in the country.

— Sam Blum, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026

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The Standard, London occupies what was once the Camden Town Hall Annexe, built in 1974—a raw concrete civic structure that embodied Brutalist architecture at its most unapologetic.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Sep. 2026
Without the winds, warm water in the east begins to flow back and eventually occupies much of the equatorial waters down to about 300 meters from the coast of South America to the middle of the Pacific.

— Steven Paton, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2026

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Video gambling, which now inhabits all corners of the state from gas stations to carryout restaurants, was not around when the state's self-exclusion list was created, and the machines have never been integrated.

— CBS News, CBS News, 7 Sep. 2026
While a chatbot waits behind a screen, a robot physically inhabits the room.

— Belonging Forum, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of inhabits

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An Exhibit 10 pays $91,000 if a player is waived, as most are, signs with a franchise’s G League team and then stays for at least 60 days.

— CJ Moore, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Every day a role stays open means lost productivity and revenue, lower team morale and ongoing recruitment costs.

— Audrey Payne, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2026

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