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coexistence

[koh-ig-zis-tuhns] / ˌkoʊ ɪgˈzɪs təns /


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South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said talks could yield "peaceful coexistence"

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

DuVernay recognizes a similar coexistence in the artist herself: “She has both curiosity and fire in her eyes and smile.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

The discovery points to a forgotten chapter in the history of humans and wolves, one that hints at experiments in coexistence that never ultimately produced the dogs we know today.

From Science Daily Jul. 5, 2026

It honours efforts to improve human coexistence, solidarity, and global cooperation.

From Barron's Jun. 17, 2026

When they went foraging in the woods, Powhatans often harassed them, and coexistence between the two groups was uneasy.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Now, the most extensive in its subject-matter of all generalizations which experience warrants, respecting the sequences and coexistences of phenomena, is the law of causation.

From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by John Stuart Mill

In fact, without this power, our knowledge of Nature would be a mere tabulation of coexistences and sequences.

From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Irwin Edman

In the first place, sequences and coexistences are not only asserted respecting Phenomena; we make propositions also respecting those hidden causes of phenomena, which are named substances and attributes.

From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) by John Stuart Mill

This sketch, too hastily made up, is founded upon a base of a very few years; i.e., we have, in one or two instances, placed in juxtaposition, as coexistences, events separated by a few years.

From Autobiographical Sketches by Thomas De Quincey

But it is fatal to the universality of the sequences or coexistences of effects, which compose the greater part of the derivative laws flowing from laws of causation.

From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by John Stuart Mill



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