coexistence
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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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That coexistence is made easier by the disposition of the animals, which evolved to be mostly oblivious to unnatural human dangers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 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
Ministry official Park Sung-ryeol told AFP events such as the festival helped raise awareness of South Korea's pursuit for "peaceful coexistence, a yearning for peace."
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
Throughout his career, he was a fierce, joyful advocate for interfaith coexistence.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2026
Failure to contain Pauling might result in a London press conference with Linus expounding peaceful coexistence.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
But the observers were as ready to presume uniformity in the coexistences of facts as in the sequences.
From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by Mill, John Stuart
Adding this all-important characteristic, our conception of life becomes—the definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
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 Spencer, Herbert
In fact, without this power, our knowledge of Nature would be a mere tabulation of coexistences and sequences.
From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin
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 Mill, John Stuart
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