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Recent Examples of cohabitation
Others are opting for cohabitation or staying single.
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Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2026
Conversations about cohabitation, inheritance, or emotional truth may finally start flowing again.
—Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 23 Nov. 2025
Hermann Nitsch crucified lambs and bulls, and Joseph Beuys attempted cohabitation with a coyote.
—Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2025
Instead of focusing on the joys of loving cohabitation and coming across poignantly allergic to controversy, like Miley Cyrus’s Younger Now or the Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco album, Swift has chosen chaos.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025
Humans have always ingested endophytes given that endophyte–plant cohabitation goes back hundreds of millions of years, and endophytes contribute to our gut microbiome.
—Anna Marija Helt, JSTOR Daily, 17 Sep. 2025
But the definition of commitment is shifting as more couples choose nonmarital cohabitation, and as relationships become increasingly individualized.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Established in 18 cities around the globe, the living arrangements provide a heightened and aesthetically pleasing cohabitation space where personal areas are smaller, focusing instead on common spaces.
—Angela Andaloro, People.com, 18 Aug. 2025
But, as the charity Dogs Trust says, peaceful cohabitation is possible when introductions are handled carefully.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cohabitation
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At the time, this film was marketed as a kind of modern-day comedy of remarriage, in which on-the-outs small-town husband-and-wife Dennis Quaid and Roberts got back together.—
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The Princess Royal married her second and current husband, Sir Timothy Laurence, at Crathie Kirk in December 1992, as the Church of England did not allow for remarriage after divorce at the time.—
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So did laws and court rulings that followed — barring Black men from the militia, barring Black adults from juries, barring Black children from learning alongside white children in public schools, and barring racial intermarriage.—
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But intermarriage could not protect the indigenous peoples, and through wars, disease, and famine their numbers continued to wane.—
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He’s openly disavowed miscegenation, and castigated Vice President JD Vance for marrying an Indian woman and fathering mixed-race children.—
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The press, however—fearing backlash to its positive depiction of interracial romance—rewrote the conclusion without Grey’s knowledge or consent, killing off Nophaie and the offending prospect of miscegenation.—
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The former Nickelodeon star spoke about the allegedly abusive relationship with her late mother, Debra, throughout her childhood.—
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Pearl explores the relationship between cultural prizes and ideas of nationhood, as well as imposter syndrome and external validation, like MFAs, literary awards, and being seen writing in coffeeshops by and with other writers.—
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Debuting on the network in 2010, four years after American culture became obsessed with polygamy thanks to HBO’s Big Love, the series has since gained a significant following and is still airing.—
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The history of the thing is interesting but vague—a general shift towards monogamy started about three and a half million years ago, but most human societies (around 85% of them) have permitted polygamy too.—
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Of the educationally mixed marriages, the majority—62 percent—were hypogamous, up from 39 percent in 1980.—
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Edgar’s absorbing historical study of intermarriage is based on policy documents, Soviet ethnographic research, and over 80 in-depth interviews with members of mixed marriages and their adult children in the ethnically diverse Soviet republic of Kazakhstan and less diverse Tajikistan.—
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In Queen Mother, Farmer takes a clear-eyed look at Moore’s foibles, noting her absenteeism during her son’s formative years, her embrace of patriarchal hierarchy in Black communities, and her exhortations for Black women to embrace polygyny to facilitate nation building.—
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In short, there remain multiple ways polygyny can be harmful.—
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North Carolina classifies bigamy as a Class I felony, and the charge can result in imprisonment for anyone who knowingly marries while still legally married to another person.—
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Three wives in three counties may just be the start for a man facing felony bigamy charges in North Carolina, investigators say.—
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“Cohabitation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cohabitation. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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