Thesaurus results for COHABIT

cohabit

verb

Definition of cohabit next

as in to live

formal to share a home and have a sexual relationship They cohabited in a small apartment in the city.

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Recent Examples of cohabit Today, rural children are less likely than urban children to live with married parents and are more likely to live with cohabiting unmarried parents or in the care of grandparents or other relatives. —

Shannon M. Monnat, The Conversation, 9 Dec. 2025 Sometimes, cohabiting cats need a period time to get used to one another. —

Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025 For instance, a 2017 study published in The Family Journal explored how empathy shapes relationship quality among cohabiting couples. —

Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2025 No alcohol is served onboard and as a mixed unmarried couple we are forbidden to cohabit. —

Kurt Johnson, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for cohabit

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Michael Bluth is exceptional because of the wealth his family used to enjoy, but also because of his seeming—and, to be fair, intermittently absent—levelheadedness despite the bubble in which the rest of his family still stubbornly, tenuously lives.

— Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026
Consumer protection advocates say the ballooning cost of living and weakening federal oversight are main causes.

— William Tong, Dallas Morning News, 20 Mar. 2026