as in collaboration
a mutually beneficial relationship
The two artists, each with their own style, share a symbiosis that enriches both their individual and collaborative work.
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Recent Examples of symbiosis
The seeming symbiosis between country music and Republican politics is a fairly recent phenomenon—a product of Richard Nixon’s electoral strategy and the broader cultural and political realignment of the 1970s.
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Time, 6 Dec. 2025
There’s really this symbiosis between digital and physical that is significant.
—Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 26 Nov. 2025
It is expected that in the future, robotic engineering will become the basis of an industry that will be a symbiosis of humans and machines.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 19 Nov. 2025
If successful, this productive force— supposed to be restorative, in at least some visions—would grow up in symbiosis with primitive fossil capital.
—Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
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Time, 6 Dec. 2025
There’s really this symbiosis between digital and physical that is significant.
—Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 26 Nov. 2025
It is expected that in the future, robotic engineering will become the basis of an industry that will be a symbiosis of humans and machines.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 19 Nov. 2025
If successful, this productive force— supposed to be restorative, in at least some visions—would grow up in symbiosis with primitive fossil capital.
—Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for symbiosis
Noun
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Her elegant collaboration was a reminder that the world has long created the kinds of crises that threaten our stability today, and a good artist finds a way to make work that shows us a way through it, even if the answer is as simple as making something beautiful.—
Rachel Tashjian,
CNN Money,
18 Feb. 2026
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Since its inception in 1981, Wednesday's Child has been a collaboration of the Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange (MARE), the Department of Children & Families and WBZ-TV/CBS Boston.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
18 Feb. 2026
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This partnership, which spans breakfast, lunch, and dinner, works well on a few levels.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
21 Feb. 2026
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And during this era, as the fashion news outlet reported, many brands’ sales came through partnerships with creators.—
Taylor Ardrey,
USA Today,
21 Feb. 2026
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Symbiotic mutualism emerges out of ecological thinking, out of that systems thinking, instead of classification thinking, which is a more flawed model.—
Fiction Non Fiction,
Literary Hub,
13 Nov. 2025
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The discovery highlights an exciting case of biological mutualism–a relationship where both species benefit.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Symbiosis.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/symbiosis. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.
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