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cohabits

verb

present tense third-person singular of cohabit

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

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Within one of those havens, Ellora, lives Pavi, a 10-year-old street kid with no memory of anything beyond the past three years.

— Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2026
This house is meant to look like someone actually lives there.

— Plum Sykes, Architectural Digest, 9 Oct. 2026

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Women’s health needs funding, not just attention For the editors, the value of the issue also resides in showing how much there is to learn about women’s health.

— Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 1 Oct. 2026
While the Starship spacecraft is a 171-foot-tall colossus designed to transport people to deep space, Dragon is a 13-foot-wide capsule fit to carry about four astronauts at a time to low-Earth orbit, where the International Space Station resides.

— Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of resides

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The Sun occupies only a small area of the sky, meaning incoming sunlight reaches a solar cell within a narrow angular cone.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2026
Those words capture a central tension in the sprawling show, which occupies interconnected galleries at the far end of the museum’s Resnick Pavilion.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026

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Food and drink Just off the courtyard, Capitulo restaurant inhabits the former chapter house, a beautiful space with vaulted ceilings, timeworn details, and a stylish, contemporary stunner of a bar.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Resnikoff fully inhabits the role of Jaku, giving him a distinctive and consistent voice, posture and temperament.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026

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