coexistence
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coexistences
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the act or state of coexisting.
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a policy of living peacefully with other nations, religions, etc., despite fundamental disagreements.
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"An example of the 'perfectly normal' coexistence" between the two faiths is "the Bolsonaro family," Pastor Gustavo Knauer told AFP, noting that unlike Flavio, Jair is Catholic.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
Pamela Flick, California program director for Defenders of Wildlife, a co-sponsor of the bill, said advocates asked state leaders for $18 million in one-time funding for the human-wildlife coexistence program, followed by $15 million annually.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said talks could yield "peaceful coexistence"
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Most of the time that coexistence is one of the state’s greatest attractions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Failure to contain Pauling might result in a London press conference with Linus expounding peaceful coexistence.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
Yet among these ultimate properties there are not only coexistences, but uniformities of coexistence.
From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by John Stuart Mill
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
That certainty which direct perception gives us respecting coexistences and sequences of the simplest and most accessible kind, science gives us respecting coexistences and sequences, complex in their dependencies or inaccessible to immediate observation.
From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer
Thus our causal thought compels us to trace back the persistent coexistences of the so-called elements to combinations whose analysis, as yet hardly begun, leads us on likewise to indefinitely manifold problems.
From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various
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
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