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That in turn drew in wildcats, and, “Natural selection favored those wildcats that were able to cohabit with humans.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2023

You have the right to cohabit with someone who demonstrates the willingness to bathe — for your sake, if not for his own.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2022

“Animals that wouldn’t normally cohabit are actually forced together because there is so little habitat.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2022

We have no choice but to cohabit with the Santa Anas, their dangers and crackling intensity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2021

This meant not only that we were learning, in a real way, how to cohabit as a couple but also that Barack got to know my family in a more intimate way.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Cassie lives in Silicon Valley, where great privilege cohabits with poverty and despair, and works at a start-up that promises her the world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2023

Team Richmond cohabits with another IMT unit, Team Prospect, run by the same nonprofit, the Institute for Community Living.

From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2023

Aletti cohabits with thousands and thousands of magazines.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 15, 2019

Waddoups ordered "or cohabits with another person" be deleted and narrowed the meaning of "purports to marry" but allowed a ban on multiple marriage licenses.

From US News ● Apr. 11, 2016

COHABIT, to.—When married partners have lived in love truly conjugial, the spirit of the deceased cohabits continually with that of the survivor, and this even to the death of the latter, 321.

From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Swedenborg, Emanuel

Had I not just cohabited with “Ulysses” for the last month, I no doubt would have spent the intermission reading chapter summaries on my phone to get a deeper understanding of the story.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2025

When Modi was thirteen, his parents arranged for him to marry a local girl, but they cohabited only briefly, and he did not publicly acknowledge the relationship for many years.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2019

In a society where female employment options were drastically limited, poor women separated from their husbands or otherwise unable to marry often cohabited with men as a matter of economic necessity.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2019

Mr. Hiatt, 61, has had no problem acclimating to the elder-statesman phase of his esteemed troubadour career, in which the blues always cohabited with country, folk and rock ’n’ roll.

From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2014

He had no children: for some weak reasons of religion or personal dislike, he had never cohabited with his wife.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

The report sorted American households into seven distinct family structures: intact married, single parent, blended, unmarried biological or adoptive, cohabiting, extended and other.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

But while they are still the majority, the share of those with joint bank accounts declined to roughly 77% of married, cohabiting couples.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 30, 2026

"We are just cohabiting, like we're not a couple. We are just parents," she says.

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026

Data show “nontraditional” families — those made up of single parents, single adults, cohabiting couples and stepfamilies — now outnumber “traditional” nuclear families in the United States.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024

Desperation, deep poverty, and illiteracy drove women to take the risk of cohabiting with men such as truck drivers and soldiers, those with steady jobs or who wielded the power of intimidation.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French