cohabitation

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cohabitation
Noun
  • Image This is not to say that plays may not benefit from an intermarriage with screens.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Even as intermarriage rates are increasing across the board, according to the most recent figures from the Pew Research Center, only 12% of Black women marry outside of their race.
    Ruhama Wolle, Glamour, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • On top of that, Hollywood’s Hays Code prohibited miscegenation — no interracial romance whatsoever.
    Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Jacob rides a horse into the city overnight for the miscegenation trial of Yellowstone foreman Zane and his wife, which has yet to get underway when the episode ends.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • These are the same individuals, former long-term girlfriends, who were involved in consensual relationships.
    KiMi Robinson, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2025
  • But tensions developed in their relationship, especially when people from Teotihuacán started to move into the area around Tikal.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • His maternal grandmother raised him and his older brother, not entrusting them to one of his father’s three other wives (polygamy is common is South Sudanese culture).
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025
  • In the recent episode of iHeart’s Rogue Energy podcast, Christine and Janelle Brown discussed their lives after leaving polygamy.
    Liza Esquibias, People.com, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Of the educationally mixed marriages, the majority—62 percent—were hypogamous, up from 39 percent in 1980.
    Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2025
  • At the age of 16, the offspring of mixed marriages had to choose one of their parents’ ethnicities.
    Robert Hornsby, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
Noun
  • For generations, anthropologists have argued whether humans are evolved for monogamy or some other mating system, such as polygyny, polyandry or promiscuity.
    Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
  • For generations, anthropologists have argued whether humans are evolved for monogamy or some other mating system, such as polygyny, polyandry or promiscuity.
    Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Not of the bigamy, nor of baby Patricia, born on April 20, 1953, in Brooklyn, and baptized at St. Patrick’s Church in Bay Ridge three months later.
    Sarah Weinman, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2024
  • Answer: Treason, murder, obstruction, theft, smuggling, piracy, mutiny, desertion, bigamy, dueling, accepting the land grant on the Ridge under false pretenses.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 July 2024
Noun
  • Benefits — other than the merchandise discounts — applied to both former commissioners and eligible family members, including spouses or civil union partners and dependent children up to age 21.
    Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Benefits — other than the merchandise discounts — applied to both former commissioners and eligible family members, including spouses or civil union partners and dependent children up to age 21.
    Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025
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“Cohabitation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cohabitation. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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