mutualistic

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Recent Examples of mutualistic Reciprocity sustains mutualistic exchange. Scott Hutcheson, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mutualistic
Adjective
  • Soft corals are in a symbiotic relationship with algae.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Their relationship has become symbiotic, and their lives intertwined with the cemetery where both live in employee housing.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 27 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • This process called a commensal pathway in animal domestication occurs when the animal is attracted to human settlements, instead of humans actively trying to recruit the animals.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 June 2025
  • According to some biologists, this might show that these birds are on their way to becoming commensal with humans—benefiting from living closely alongside them—like pigeons have in urban areas.
    Jorge Garay, Wired News, 29 May 2025
Adjective
  • Sports betting operators have no influence over nor are any such revenues in any way dependent on or linked to the newsrooms or news coverage.
    Jacob Camenker, USA Today, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Fiscal responsibility for quality transportation was complicated and often dependent on public funding.
    Menika Dirkson, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Extrapolating these numbers to a US Foods/PFG merger and applying similar levels of synergies using the EBITDA of PFG’s foodservice segment ($1.2 billion), which holds most of the synergistic potential, a merger could be expected to yield $800 million to upwards of $1 billion in synergies.
    Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Good or synergistic all the time.
    Outside Online, Outside Online, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Mutualistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mutualistic. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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