Meaning of coexist in English

coexist

verb [ I ]

(also co-exist)

/ˌkəʊ.ɪɡˈzɪst/ us

/ˌkoʊ.ɪɡˈzɪst/

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to live or exist together at the same time or in the same place:

coexist with He does not believe that modern medicine can co-exist with faith-healing.

When asked how he will coexist with the new coach, he just laughed.

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Friends told me the diet and my active lifestyle couldn't coexist.
Whales have struggled to co-exist with humans over the past century.

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coexist

verb [ I ]

/ˌkoʊ·ɪɡˈzɪst/

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to live or exist together, esp. in peace, at the same time or in the same place:

The two communities coexist peacefully.

coexistence

noun [ U ] us

/ˌkoʊ·ɪɡˈzɪs·təns/

Peaceful coexistence is our only real hope.

(Definition of coexist from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of coexist

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Various representations thus coexisted in the early modern period, only to expand as time passed.

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The model assumes that, initially, both aphids and natural enemies coexist at low densities (mathematically, at a stable equilibrium).

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Therefore, construction variants may coexist for a while.

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On the contrary, in every country in which syndicalist and socialist unions coexisted, the syndicalists opposed the war.

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Results of this study also suggested that coexisting forms of maternal disturbance- high psychiatric illness along with high sensation seeking-exacerbated risk to offspring.

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This nucleus gives rise at the first embryonic mitosis to 20 bivalents which coexist with 20 somatic chromosomes originating from the female pronucleus.

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In most cases, opaque and transparent spectra coexist offering both the possibility of pitch detection and the ambiguity of focus (music example 4).

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Optionality occurs when two rival items coexist and neither has yet achieved a resting level at which it consistently triumphs over the other.

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They also show the way in which identity is negotiated on a daily basis, coexisting with new and rediscovered forms of individualism.

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Questions and concerns about how conventional and organic producers can cooperate and coexist under marketing order programs need to be addressed.

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This 'pronucleus' condenses at first mitotic metaphase to 40 somatic chromosomes which coexist with 20 egg cell chromosomes.

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It is clearly established that elsewhere in the world, dinosaurs and mammals coexisted and were widely distributed.

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As long as two sectors coexist, the demand for labor from the modern sector determines the population proportions of wage earners and subsisters.

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Thus, competing potential actions can coexist as distinct hills in the landscape of cellular activity.

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The crucial * point is that this can happily coexist with a direct reading of the additive function type.

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