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cohabitation

British  
/ kəʊˌhæbɪˈteɪʃən /

noun

  1. the state or condition of living together as husband and wife without being married

  2. (of political parties) the state or condition of cooperating for specific purposes without forming a coalition

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Cohabitation, marriage, kids are life changes, and milestones, but they are not in themselves representative of growth.

From Washington Post • Oct. 28, 2021

Q. Cohabitation conflict: I have a 20-year old daughter.

From Slate • Apr. 21, 2020

A 2016 study published by the National Institutes of Health, “Diverging Patterns in Marriage, Cohabitation, and Childbearing,” shows that the problem crosses gender boundaries.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2017

Cohabitation, Pleck explains, has, since the 1960s, often been considered a white phenomenon — when we think of it, we tend to think of hippie communes and college students trying out domestic partnership.

From Salon • Feb. 2, 2013

My Business is about Propagation, as the civil Lawyers do learnedly paraphrase, is of Concomitance, or Cohabitation, or what you please to term it.

From The Stolen Heiress or, The Salamanca Doctor Outplotted by Centlivre, Susanna