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  • verb Present participle of cohabitate.

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  • "You don't see many long-term cohabitating relationships that just last and last, because people want that ring and that honeymoon and that party to show themselves that they've achieved what, in America, is a first-class personal life," Cherlin says.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • Since 2005, the country has experienced such agonizing conflicts between the President, on the one side, and its two "cohabitating" Prime-Ministers (Timoshenko, Yanukovich), on the other, that there are, probably, few Ukrainians left who think that this political solution has been good for their homeland.

    Ukraine's Window of Opportunity 2008

  • It should be noted that over the last two decades the number of out-of-wedlock births have dramatically increased in our nation, across color lines as our attitudes on previously taboo behaviors such as cohabitating before marriage become increasingly relaxed.

    Keli Goff: Barack Obama's Most Groundbreaking Domestic Policy Speech 2008

  • Stob wrote that school policy requires that at least one parent may not engage in practices "immoral or inconsistent with a positive Christian life style, such as cohabitating without marriage or in a homosexual relationship," The Los Angeles Times reported in Friday's edition.

    bigotry in ontario 2005

  • Apparently, the school actually has a policy that states that at least one parent may not engage in practices that are "immoral or inconsistent with a positive Christian life style, such as cohabitating without marriage or in a homosexual relationship" (I guess it's OK if only one of them does it, huh?).

    Intellectual Snob Meme rayce 2005

  • Stob wrote that school policy requires that at least one parent may not engage in practices "immoral or inconsistent with a positive Christian life style, such as cohabitating without marriage or in a homosexual relationship," The Los Angeles Times reported in Friday's edition.

    September 2005 2005

  • The superintendent of Ontario Christian School, Leonard Stob, wrote to Shay Clark's biological mother, Tina Clark, this week saying Shay had been expelled because the family did not meet admission policies, which required that at least one parent did not engage in practices 'immoral or inconsistent with a positive Christian lifestyle, such as cohabitating without marriage or in a homosexual relationship'.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: School expels girl for having lesbian parents 2005

  • Stob wrote that school policy requires that at least one parent may not engage in practices "immoral or inconsistent with a positive Christian life style, such as cohabitating without marriage or in a homosexual relationship," The Los Angeles Times reported in Friday's edition.

    Archive 2005-09-01 2005

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    OpEdNews - Quicklink: School expels girl for having lesbian parents 2005

  • My presumption of long standing has been that divorce rates are lower in those places where people are more likely to feel it’s appropriate to have (a) sexual relationships and especially (b) long-term cohabitating relationships without being married.

    Matthew Yglesias » Gay Marriage Bans Associated With High Divorce Rate 2010

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