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- verb Present participle of
cohabit .
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Examples
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It appears to say you can cohabit and it doesn't matter, but it doesn't look at all the couples who begin cohabiting and how many of them are able to make a marriage last.
Report: Cohabiting has little effect on marriage success 2010
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"There is a lot of childbearing outside of marriage, and a good portion nowadays is in cohabiting relationships," she says.
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Did you end up getting married, breaking up or do you remain cohabiting?
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The Virginia Court of Appeals today ruled that two people of the same sex cohabiting is in some regards analogous to marriage, the AP reports.
Waldo Jaquith - Court of Appeals: Same Sex Partnerships = Marriage. 2007
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In captivity, hybridization between large cats that are cohabiting is quite common.
Controversial origins of the domestic dog Darren Naish 2006
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I am a queer feminist cis woman in my early twenties, in a long-term cohabiting relationship with a male queer partner in his early twenties.
Moonbattery 2009
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The Bill provides, for unmarried opposite-sex couples and unregistered same-sex couples, a redress scheme to give protection to a financially dependent person at the end of a long-term cohabiting relationship.
PinkNews.co.uk 2009
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We also have more short-term cohabiting relationships.
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We also have more short-term cohabiting relationships.
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Amy DePaul, Bookslut 2009
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There’s not the same sympathy and support, because there’s some implied indication from our society that marriage is more important than a long-term cohabiting relationship, Wynns says.
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