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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McDonald's, in reply, claimed the issue of coexistence was irrelevant, adding the issue to be decided was "whether there exists a conflict in the European Union".
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
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
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
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 John Stuart Mill
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 Sir John Alexander Hammerton
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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