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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

Maybe it’s because we’re neighbors with Hollywood’s mirage machine that we can cohabit so easily with irony.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2022

Even after years together — the play begins on their 10th anniversary — they are not only unable to marry but also even to cohabit in safety.

From New York Times ● May 8, 2022

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

An old woman called Miss Ulyana cohabits with a prosperous old peasant in exile.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 11, 2017

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

DECEASED.—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 Emanuel Swedenborg

Native Americans more or less cohabited peaceably with the grizzlies, each usually giving the other wide berth, at a mid-19th century ratio of about 10,000 California grizzlies to 130,000 native Americans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Whatever common ground he cohabited with mortals like us was ceded sometime back in the mid-aughts after his third Super Bowl title in four years or his epochal 2007 campaign.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2020

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

The third kind of marriage was, when a man and woman, having cohabited for some time and had children, found it expedient to continue together.

From Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World by Anonymous

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

Laws regarding cohabiting unmarried partners vary by state.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 16, 2026

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

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026

He testified that the couple had been married for 20 years and were cohabiting “under the same roof” but were living separate lives then and dating other people.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 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