Word: coexister
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...would make sense for the institutions t coexist. Harvard, America's first, best and most famous university, ought to be within reach of McDonald's, America's first, best and most famous fast food joint. Students are perpetually low on cash, and McDonald's is easy on the wallet. Students are always busy, and McDonald's is fast. Golden arches and Veritas. It's a match made in heaven...
...even many street musicians support volume restrictions, which they say would allow solo flutists to coexist with rock bands on weekends...
Establishing a post-Soviet monarchy in such a utilitarian spirit may seem to undermine the emotional aura that would be the new czar's chief benefit. But that aura can coexist with practical considerations. Shakespeare's tragedy of kingship, Richard II, contrasts Richard, an immoral and incapable king, yet one who believes he was divinely appointed, with his deposer and successor, Henry Bolingbroke, who, for all his cunning and competence, is haunted by the knowledge that he is a usurper. Shakespeare presents the shift from Richard to Henry as a changing of the guard, a clean break from one style...
...longer have any desire to terrorize insects. It's not that I don't mind bugs--I do. The idea of camping outside repulses me, and the thought of a cockroach in my bathroom disgusts me. I refuse to coexist with them. But I don't want to kill them...
...appears on cookie packages and in TV commercials, as "a two-legged, puffy white voiced character." When it comes to pudgy pitchmen, the Doughboy has at least one other colleague -- the sixtysomething Michelin Man. But apparently the baking business isn't big enough for two roly-poly guys to coexist peacefully...