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coexist

[koh-ig-zist] / ˌkoʊ ɪgˈzɪst /
VERB
exist together
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“For now, tokenization therefore must coexist with much of the legacy financial infrastructure it ultimately seeks to improve.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

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

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

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

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

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

Sometimes this deficiency coexists with too early synostosis elsewhere.

From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Eugene S. Talbot

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

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

Researchers are exploring whether these groups competed, coexisted peacefully, or worked together in meaningful ways.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 12, 2026

Would she believe that Poles, Jews, Ukrainians, Armenians, and Hungarians had all coexisted peacefully in Lwów before the war?

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys

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

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

"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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