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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Most of the time that coexistence is one of the state’s greatest attractions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
DuVernay recognizes a similar coexistence in the artist herself: “She has both curiosity and fire in her eyes and smile.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
The discovery points to a forgotten chapter in the history of humans and wolves, one that hints at experiments in coexistence that never ultimately produced the dogs we know today.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
So far this year, more than 140 Arab citizens of Israel have been killed in such violence according to the Abraham Initiatives coexistence organisation -- a 12 percent rise over the same period last year.
From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026
Failure to contain Pauling might result in a London press conference with Linus expounding peaceful coexistence.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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 Spencer, Herbert
Among the coexistences and sequences there is an order which we can detect, and a few thinkers are inclined to maintain that this is the whole story.
From Through Nature to God by Fiske, John
And it cannot be doubted that between phenomena which are themselves effects, the coexistences must necessarily depend on the causes of those phenomena.
From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by Mill, John Stuart
However complex the phenomena, all their sequences and coexistences result from the laws of the separate elements.
From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by Mill, John Stuart
But it is fatal to the universality of the sequences or coexistences of effects, which compose the greater part of the derivative laws flowing from laws of causation.
From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by Mill, John Stuart
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