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  • verb Present participle of habit.

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Examples

  • Those who are most uncomfortable co-habiting are also likely to be those who see marriage as a solution and a sacrament, and divorce as a failure and a sin.

    Sex, science and statistics Boing Boing 2009

  • The non-religious adults and young people will increase rapidly in numbers through abandonment of Christianity, but in the process adopt lifestyles not conducive to child-bearing — co-habiting with fewer (and often more dysfunctional) children, same-sex ‘marriage’, a selfish unwillingness to go through the troubles and expense of bringing up children.

    Mission Researchers Respond to the Muslim Demographic Video 2009

  • This was supposed to be sattire based on the story of the woman who was co-habiting with a chimp which "went ape" and almost killed a visitor to the house.

    Obama as witch doctor: Racist or satirical? 2009

  • A record low, and yet 75% of co-habiting people say that they want the rice and cake.

    Why Can't Women Make Their Minds Up ? Newmania 2008

  • A record low, and yet 75% of co-habiting people say that they want the rice and cake.

    Archive 2008-01-06 Newmania 2008

  • An enterprising reporter found him at the residence of a Baltimore hair salon owner with whom, it was alleged, James Agnew was co-habiting.

    McCain To Meet With Potential Running Mates 2009

  • One of the IDS research projects found that almost one in two co-habiting couples in Britain split up before their child's first birthday.

    Why marriage should be recognised in the tax system 2009

  • But if it is ever a society in which some people have fundamental rights, such as the right to marry, and others don't, because in the politics of the day, a "majority," out of ignorance or prejudice, has voted against those rights, it is not a nation at all, just a group of co-habiting factions, some of which have more power than others.

    The Dangers of Voting on Civil Rights 2009

  • I do not traduce single parents, co-habiting parents or divorcees, plenty of whom succeed against the odds; but that's the point: the statistics suggest that divisive failure is more common.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

  • I do not traduce single parents, co-habiting parents or divorcees, plenty of whom succeed against the odds; but that's the point: the statistics suggest that divisive failure is more common.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

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