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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cohabit.

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Examples

  • And, after all, what Jarry put on the stage that memorable evening was simply an update of the world of Punch and Judy—violence, absurdity, masked actors, a stage where a bed cohabits with a snowy field and cacophonous music issues from a small band onstage.

    That Ubu That He Did So Well Gabriel Josipovici 2012

  • All of which ought to confirm that Dean risks a formal beauty and deploys a melancholy palette that in her case easily cohabits with irony, rigour and complexity.

    Tacita Dean at the Common Guild - review 2011

  • But let us recognize that "Don't be evil" still cohabits with "Be bad."

    Hurricane Irene and Steve Jobs Daniel Henninger 2011

  • Even the usually serene Bronson agonized: "Can a man act continually for the universal end," he asked Lane, "while he cohabits with a wife?"

    Utopia, With Tears Alexandra Mullen 2010

  • In creating the score for Survivor, Shechter is negotiating territory in which dread cohabits with a consoling beauty.

    Hofesh Shechter: From bullets to ballet 2012

  • “It was taught, R. Meir used to say: Whoever marries his daughter to an am ha-arez is as though he bound and laid her before a lion: just as a lion tears [his prey] and devours it and has no shame, so an am ha-arez strikes [hits/beats] and cohabits and has no shame” (B. Pesahim 49b).

    Wifebeating in Jewish Tradition. 2009

  • By contrast, my dog George cohabits with an entire family of waste removal specialists and we take our work seriously.

    Alfred Gingold: Holy Crap! 2009

  • As for the Bill, here's a common scenario: woman cohabits with man in his house for 20 years.

    Baroness Deech and the Cohabitation Bill 2009

  • Judah has now performed the levirate (despite himself) and never cohabits with Tamar again.

    Tamar: Bible. 2009

  • The physicians were consulted, and they said, There is no cure for him until she cohabits.

    Modesty and Sexuality in Halakhic Literature. 2009

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