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Cohabit

To inhabit or reside in company, or in the same place or country.

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Be 76% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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Dwell 76% connected

To delay; to linger.

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Exist 76% connected

To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

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Inhabit 76% connected

To live or dwell in; to occupy, as a place of settled residence; as, wild beasts inhabit the forest; men inhabit cities and houses.

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Live 76% connected

To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation fo…

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Populate 76% connected

Populous.

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Coexist 76% connected

To exist at the same time; -- sometimes followed by with.

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Coincide 76% connected

To occupy the same place in space, as two equal triangles, when placed one on the other.

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Cohabitation 74% connected

The act or state of dwelling together, or in the same place with another.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Cohabitation 74% connected

The act or state of dwelling together, or in the same place with another.

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Coexist 92% connected

To exist at the same time; -- sometimes followed by with.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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