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Recent Examples of mutualism
Usually, plant-pollinator interactions are mutualisms.
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Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 8 May 2025
Bees get nectar from flowers while acting as pollinators in a process called mutualism.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 6 May 2025
Yet mutual aid/mutualism never seems to get as much attention as conflict/competition does.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 4 Feb. 2025
In a display of mutualism underwater, the crustaceans in return clean the sponges and even breed inside them.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
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Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 8 May 2025
Bees get nectar from flowers while acting as pollinators in a process called mutualism.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 6 May 2025
Yet mutual aid/mutualism never seems to get as much attention as conflict/competition does.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 4 Feb. 2025
In a display of mutualism underwater, the crustaceans in return clean the sponges and even breed inside them.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mutualism
Noun
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Leaders need to design symbiosis—like pairing a visionary with a systems thinker, or a sprinter with a stamina builder.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Publishers live in an often-uneasy symbiosis with scientists, publishing their work, but also needing to make money off the process.—
Thomas Morgan,
The Conversation,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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After all, the reciprocity treaty between the nations — in place from 1854 to 1865 — had produced an economic boom.—
Dónal Gill,
The Dial,
28 Oct. 2025
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But Saturn pushes you to create harmony that’s rooted in healthy reciprocity, as opposed to compromise that silences your needs.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
27 Oct. 2025
Noun
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At crucial moments, however, one force surrenders to the other to produce an ambiguous collaboration.—
Elizabeth D. Samet,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
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This option by Loloi, made in collaboration with fellow HGTV star Joanna Gaines, has a gorgeous neutral pattern that will look at home during any season.—
Averi Baudler,
PEOPLE,
28 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Their unlikely friendship ended in February 1987, when Warhol died suddenly after a complicated gall bladder operation.—
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Oct. 2025
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About four decades ago, the late Debby Ruskin began tending gardens across Silicon Valley, not as a career move, but as an act of friendship.—
Nia Bowers,
USA Today,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Mutualism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mutualism. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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