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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  • Savannah Peterson lives across the street from the pier and has been watching that show for years from her front yard.
    John Ramos, CBS News, 10 June 2026
  • Julian Poyourow lives with his wife on Bently Avenue, in a quiet residential block just yards east of the 15-acre GKN Aerospace facility.
    Victoria Le, Oc Register, 10 June 2026
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  • The anti-establishment narrative from Lahn, who resides on his longtime family farm and owns an investment company, has been targeted by Democrats for his years of work as a GOP political operative.
    Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2026
  • His goal was to reproduce Henri Matisse’s Luxe, Calme, et Volupté (1904), which resides in the collection of Paris’s Musée d’Orsay, for his living room.
    Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 3 June 2026
Verb
  • Jeans, of course, still occupies an important space in most fashion editors' summer wardrobes, though white jeans and light-weight denim make it to the top of the pile while black and gray jeans in more rigid denim are often reserved for nights out at a bar.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 6 June 2026
  • Recent research puts the city’s waterfront premium near 120%, a figure that helps explain why the most direct version of harborside living occupies such a coveted and pricey category.
    Spencer Elliott, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026
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  • But unlike Disclosure or Airframe or—above all—State of Fear, his spate of latter-day thrill-eds, Sphere unpolemically inhabits this epistemology of doubt that colors so much of his work.
    Ian Mackenzie, Literary Hub, 27 May 2026
  • The trees here don't speak to people, but locals say the spirit of an old man inhabits the shadows between the branches.
    Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
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  • The film stays true to much of the original comic with the notable addition of Lobo, an interstellar bounty hunter, played by Jason Momoa.
    Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026
  • Cinematographer Eric Yue stays close on his subjects, a handheld camera keeping us caught in their movements, queasy and intimate in equal measure.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 6 June 2026
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“Cohabits.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cohabits. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.

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