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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  • Scientists have believed the glycogen in the brain primarily resides in astrocytes, which act as support cells that provide nutrients to neurons.
    Isabella Backman, Hartford Courant, 12 June 2026
  • They are usually given out by the king or a senior royal acting in his place, increasingly at Windsor Castle where Charles largely resides.
    ABC News, ABC News, 12 June 2026
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  • Michael Jackson Fills 10 Spaces This Week The R&B Streaming Songs chart features 15 slots, and Jackson occupies 10 of them at the moment.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
  • The Downtown Historic District occupies just eight blocks and includes some of Orlando’s oldest surviving commercial buildings built between the 1880s and the 1940s.
    Sarah M. Boye, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 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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  • Saturday night stays mild and muggy, with lows settling into the 70s.
    Damien Lodes, CBS News, 13 June 2026
  • If the rest of their rotation stays healthy — that’s a big if — Weathers could shift to the bullpen whenever Max Fried returns from a bone bruise.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 13 June 2026
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“Cohabits.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cohabits. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.

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