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cohabit

verb

  1. live together with someone else, especially in a romantic relationship but without being married
  2. coexist together; exist in common environs with
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /koʊˈhæbɪt/

verb

Etymology: From Latin cohabitō; co- + habitō (“to dwell, to live in”).

  1. To live together with someone else, especially in a romantic and sexual relationship but without being married.
  2. To coexist in common environs with.
  3. To have sex; see coition.
  4. To cooperate with an opposing political party.

    An outright far-right victory in the two-round poll, which commences on 30 June, could render Macron a lame duck, doomed to “cohabit” with an overtly xenophobic, Islamophobic, authoritarian and illiberal government led, prospectively, by Jordan Bardella, Le Pen’s young protege