coexistence
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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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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
For many spectators, the coexistence of mourning ceremonies and World Cup excitement reflected the complexities of modern Iranian life.
From Barron's ● Jun. 21, 2026
Throughout his career, he was a fierce, joyful advocate for interfaith coexistence.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 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 Fiske, John
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 Spencer, Herbert
Now, the most extensive in its subject-matter of all generalizations which experience warrants, respecting the sequences and coexistences of phenomena, is the law of causation.
From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by Mill, John Stuart
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
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 Mill, John Stuart
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