cohabit
verb (used without object)
to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
cohabits
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present tense formof cohabit (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Cassie lives in Silicon Valley, where great privilege cohabits with poverty and despair, and works at a start-up that promises her the world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
Team Richmond cohabits with another IMT unit, Team Prospect, run by the same nonprofit, the Institute for Community Living.
From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2023
An old woman called Miss Ulyana cohabits with a prosperous old peasant in exile.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 11, 2017
Waddoups ordered "or cohabits with another person" be deleted and narrowed the meaning of "purports to marry" but allowed a ban on multiple marriage licenses.
From US News ● Apr. 11, 2016
The black-fox is only less elusive than the black tulip or the blue rose, and yet he inhabits the same section and cohabits often the same burrow with the red and the cross-fox.
From The New North by Agnes Deans Cameron
