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coexist

[koh-ig-zist] / ˌkoʊ ɪgˈzɪst /
VERB
exist together
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No longer content to coexist with natural-born beings or seeking to be more lifelike, synthetic humanoids lord over what’s left of humanity.

From Salon Sep. 4, 2026

“But the ancient world needs to coexist with the modern.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

Here in this alt-world Albuquerque, 2D creatures coexist with mundane strip malls.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

Understanding how the two waves appear and coexist could provide clues about the more complicated phase transitions involved in superconductivity and other unusual electronic states.

From Science Daily Aug. 20, 2026

They allowed thousands of players to simultaneously coexist inside a simulated world, which they connected to via the Internet.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

French-language newspaper El Watan said the "symbolic" visit was "of great historical significance in a country where ancient Christian memory coexists with the Muslim reality of today".

From Barron's Feb. 26, 2026

Venezuela isn’t like Mexico, where a state coexists uneasily with cartels.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 6, 2026

Meanwhile, parents and experts say schools neglect students with math disabilities like dyscalculia, which affects up to 7% of the population and often coexists with dyslexia.

From Washington Times Oct. 17, 2023

Leonardo embodies the world of art, which coexists with the worlds of the living and of the dead.

From New York Times Oct. 19, 2022

The frondescent petals are very often completely disjoined, as in Verbascum nigrum, and Lonicera Periclymenum, in which, moreover, median prolification generally coexists.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters

For centuries, this city has been a multiethnic melting pot where European and African, Muslim and Christian cultures converged, and coexisted mostly peacefully.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 2026

Those two things coexisted for a while, but not for long.

From Salon Jun. 30, 2026

Both aspects have coexisted for centuries, but the great popularization of the personality side gave rise to a new form of discrimination, astrological prejudice.

From Slate May 5, 2026

For millions of years, these color morphs coexisted within the same populations, maintaining a stable evolutionary system.

From Science Daily Apr. 25, 2026

The preferred sense of disinterested as “impartial,” for example, has coexisted for centuries with its frowned-upon sense as “bored.”

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Instead, scientists will target gases coexisting in ways that can’t be explained by geology alone.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 23, 2026

This means two species had been coexisting unnoticed until one appeared farther north in Tohoku.

From Science Daily Nov. 1, 2025

The fact that there’s two personalities coexisting is what makes that whole thing really sing.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 30, 2025

In his fall 1971 convocation address at the University of Alberta, McLuhan told students that in an electronic world, people become “discarnate data, a sort of disembodied spirit coexisting and functioning simultaneously in diverse locations.”

From Slate Jul. 28, 2025

At some point my mom moved to a separate bedroom in the house, and from then on they were married in name only, not even cohabitating but coexisting.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah




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