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coexist

[koh-ig-zist] / ˌkoʊ ɪgˈzɪst /
VERB
exist together
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My family loved traveling to Japan, and I think that really helped open us up to new ways of understanding people and how different cultures can coexist within one space.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

"The debate of how we build a society where safety and privacy coexist" is worth having, he says, but the ongoing vandalism is "disappointing".

From BBC Sep. 5, 2026

In certain quantum materials, different phases can also coexist, although the underlying behavior is far more complex.

From Science Daily Aug. 20, 2026

This place has an odd, accommodating kinship with these prehistoric monsters, a willingness to coexist rather than eliminate what would kill us.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

Institutional dourness and cheerful domesticity coexist on the fourth floor of the Finney County Courthouse.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

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

Constant sorrow coexists with countervailing strength and perseverance.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 25, 2025

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

This Unity one that coexists with Great Diversity—Illustrations from the Analogy of God's Works—3.

From Companion to the Bible by E. P. (Elijah Porter) Barrows

"Back then, the settlers were living alongside us, and we coexisted peacefully. They lived their lives and we lived ours," he told me.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

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

From Salon Jun. 30, 2026

"Kank coexisted with larger carnivores such as Maip macrothorax, a formidable megaraptorid dinosaur more than 10 metres long, which may have been capable of preying upon it," Dr. Motta adds.

From Science Daily May 29, 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

He rejected the notion that animals and plants suffered sudden annihilations, and believed that all the principal animal groups–mammals, reptiles, fish, and so on–had coexisted since the dawn of time.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

Many locals who are used to coexisting with the sharks think it’s all a big hullabaloo, too.

From The Wall Street Journal May 31, 2026

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

"That paradox - of cruelty and warmth coexisting - is what made the finale so moving," said Mr Jeong, the film blogger.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2025

But writer-director Todd Komarnicki’s aggressively lionizing, faith-driven movie about Bonhoeffer seems uninterested in any complexity about pacifism and violence coexisting in one man.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 22, 2024

I realized my family loved me very much and this world could be such a great place to live if you just realized the structure for coexisting with the other five billion inhabitants.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers




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