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coexistence

American  
[koh-ig-zis-tuhns] / ˌkoʊ ɪgˈzɪs təns /

noun

  • coexistences
    plural
  1. the act or state of coexisting.

  2. a policy of living peacefully with other nations, religions, etc., despite fundamental disagreements.


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Origin of coexistence

First recorded in 1640–50; co- + existence

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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

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

So far this year, more than 140 Arab citizens of Israel have been killed in such violence according to the Abraham Initiatives coexistence organisation -- a 12 percent rise over the same period last year.

From Barron's Jul. 5, 2026

Failure to contain Pauling might result in a London press conference with Linus expounding peaceful coexistence.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

Adding this all-important characteristic, our conception of life becomes—the definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics by Sir John Alexander Hammerton

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

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 John Stuart Mill

In fact, without this power, our knowledge of Nature would be a mere tabulation of coexistences and sequences.

From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Irwin Edman

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

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