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coexist

[koh-ig-zist] / ˌkoʊ ɪgˈzɪst /
VERB
exist together
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"We will have to learn to coexist with the floods."

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

Years ago on “Rick and Morty,” President Andre Curtis fumed that he can’t coexist with Rick Sanchez, a living god who won’t submit to his will.

From Salon Jul. 25, 2026

Explaining how this growing complexity can coexist with the continual rise of entropy remains an unresolved problem.

From Science Daily Jul. 21, 2026

“The Galápagos is a place where people and wildlife coexist in a unique way.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 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

How strange, how strange it is, this deep, wild passion that nature has implanted in us to be the death of our fellow-creatures, and which coexists at the same time with horror!

From Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In its most recent appeal in June of this year, the Irish chain argued both it and McDonald's had coexisted in Ireland for around 40 years and there had been no evidence of confusion.

From BBC Aug. 7, 2026

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

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

The two patterns together create the checkerboard arrangement of coexisting electronic phases.

From Science Daily Aug. 20, 2026

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

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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