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coexistence

American  
[koh-ig-zis-tuhns] / ˌkoʊ ɪgˈzɪs təns /

noun

  • coexistences
    plural
  1. the act or state of coexisting.

  2. a policy of living peacefully with other nations, religions, etc., despite fundamental disagreements.


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Origin of coexistence

First recorded in 1640–50; co- + existence

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South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said talks could yield "peaceful coexistence"

From BBC Aug. 15, 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

When they went foraging in the woods, Powhatans often harassed them, and coexistence between the two groups was uneasy.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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 John Stuart Mill

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 John Fiske

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

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 John Stuart Mill

Now, the most extensive in its subject-matter of all generalizations which experience warrants, respecting the sequences and coexistences of phenomena, is the law of causation.

From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by John Stuart Mill

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