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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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
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
His ambition was to protect the South American Indians and preserve their culture, striving for a peaceful coexistence.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
Among the coexistences and sequences there is an order which we can detect, and a few thinkers are inclined to maintain that this is the whole story.
From Through Nature to God by John Fiske
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
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
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
And it cannot be doubted that between phenomena which are themselves effects, the coexistences must necessarily depend on the causes of those phenomena.
From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by John Stuart Mill
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