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coexistence

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


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

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

DuVernay recognizes a similar coexistence in the artist herself: “She has both curiosity and fire in her eyes and smile.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

That coexistence is made easier by the disposition of the animals, which evolved to be mostly oblivious to unnatural human dangers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 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

When they went foraging in the woods, Powhatans often harassed them, and coexistence between the two groups was uneasy.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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

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

However complex the phenomena, all their sequences and coexistences result from the laws of the separate elements.

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

Adding this all-important characteristic, our conception of life becomes—the definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics by Sir John Alexander Hammerton

Now, the most extensive in its subject-matter of all generalizations which experience warrants, respecting the sequences and coexistences of phenomena, is the law of causation.

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



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