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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Even some secular residents acknowledge that day-to-day coexistence is generally peaceful.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
A team of researchers at UC Riverside is on a mission to change that by studying the wild population in hopes of gaining insights that can improve coexistence between humans and donkeys.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Decades ago, exhibitions in the U.S. and Switzerland concentrated on this period of coexistence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
That long coexistence changed dramatically 66 million years ago, when an asteroid struck Earth and triggered a global mass extinction.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 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
This sketch, too hastily made up, is founded upon a base of a very few years; i.e., we have, in one or two instances, placed in juxtaposition, as coexistences, events separated by a few years.
From Autobiographical Sketches by Thomas De Quincey
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
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
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