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coexistence

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


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One specifically tragic element of Israeli-Palestinian conflict has obscured centuries of coexistence between Jews and Muslims in communities across dozens of countries that included a shared culinary language.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Pamela Flick, California program director for Defenders of Wildlife, a co-sponsor of the bill, said advocates asked state leaders for $18 million in one-time funding for the human-wildlife coexistence program, followed by $15 million annually.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

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

From BBC ● Aug. 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

Failure to contain Pauling might result in a London press conference with Linus expounding peaceful coexistence.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

Maintenance of the necessity, whether of sequences or of coexistences, is commonly thought rather a derogation from divine power than otherwise.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Herbert Spencer

And it cannot be doubted that between phenomena which are themselves effects, the coexistences must necessarily depend on the causes of those phenomena.

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

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

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

Among the coexistences and sequences there is an order which we can detect, and a few thinkers are inclined to maintain that this is the whole story.

From Through Nature to God by John Fiske



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