Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To exist together, at the same time, or in the same place.
- intransitive verb To live in peace with another or others despite differences, especially as a matter of policy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To exist at the same time with another, or with one another.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To exist at the same time; -- sometimes followed by
with .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive, of two or more things, people, etc. To exist
contemporaneously or in the same area.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb coexist peacefully, as of nations
- verb exist together
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Examples
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Maybe he was trying to find that "crepuscular" place where left and right brain coexist in a harmonious union.
Spark plugs and transmissions Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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Which means I have to think through the plots first, then worry about how Taylor and Baldwin coexist within them.
November 2007 2007
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Which means I have to think through the plots first, then worry about how Taylor and Baldwin coexist within them.
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The conviction that no way can be found for Israel and the Palestinians to coexist is strongest in Morocco (90 percent), followed by Jordan (85 percent), the Palestinian Authority (80 percent), Kuwait (72 percent), Lebanon (65 percent), Indonesia (58 percent) and Pakistan (57 percent).
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So this is a movie in which Miley Stinkvirus and the idea of sex coexist, which is about as unpleasant as movies get these days.
Gawker: defamer 2010
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When you look at the diverse group of people; the antique cars group, the street rodders, the muscle car people, the pro-streets, the low-riders, the rat rodders, and the custom car people, you quickly see that all forms of automotive self - expression coexist at all age levels.
Just Cruisin 2 2010
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I'm against the people that are out there just really just causing problems and making it hard for everybody just to kind of coexist here on Haight Street.
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But it's also possible that these two personas inside Glenn Beck kind of coexist, and he's not even sure who he is at this point.
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But it's also possible that these two personas inside Glenn Beck kind of coexist, and he's not even sure who he is at this point.
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I'm against the people that are out there just really just causing problems and making it hard for everybody just to kind of coexist here on Haight Street.
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