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symbiosis

[sim-bee-oh-sis, -bahy-] / ˌsɪm biˈoʊ sɪs, -baɪ- /






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Located at the bottom of the world, it’s hard to imagine a place more closely connected to nature, where New Zealand’s Māori communities have long lived in symbiosis with the land.

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026

"I think there's a really nice symbiosis between the two of them, but honestly a lot of it is work, it's connecting off the pitch, it's preparation and it's understanding what they see."

From BBC ● May 23, 2026

Nothing captures Mr. Sankar’s ardent pursuit of a private-public defense symbiosis better than his call to seek out “heretics” and elevate them to positions of military and strategic authority.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

"Within the symbiosis project, we've been steadily sequencing genomes for several years, but several key gaps remained. In this study, we were able to fill these missing puzzle pieces," confirms Sanchez.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 1, 2026

Later, when the time is right, there may be fusion and symbiosis among the bits, and then we will see eukaryotic thought, metazoans of thought, huge interliving coral shoals of thought.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

"These areas likely harbor similar microbial symbioses, which means that these interactions impact ecosystem functioning on a global scale."

From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024

These deeply intimate symbioses are everywhere in nature, forming the foundation of the living world.

From Salon ● May 30, 2021

And fungi are major players in some of the most blockbuster symbioses in the history of the planet.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 24, 2020

It is one of the oldest and most successful symbioses in nature, said Toby Spribille, a lichen expert at the University of Graz in Austria, and the lead author of the new paper.

From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2016

Fungi are also involved in ecologically important coevolved symbioses, both mutually beneficial and pathogenic with organisms from the other kingdoms.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013


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