0 past participle, past simple of co-exist
1 to live or exist together at the same time or in the same place:
Frequently former chiefs occupied posts in the new hierarchies of popular power or the latter co-existed with royal rule by other means.
Competition co-existed productively with co-operation, especially when pioneering development was in hand.
An observer from the early nineteenth century noted how the autocratic model (hunter king), co-existed with the democratic model (blacksmith king).
Of course, these three ideas were not mutually exclusive and could have co-existed.
The alternative means of clothing acquisition which co-existed with these commercial practices were more diffuse.
A wide variety of artistic styles co-existed, ranging from conventional figuration to innovative abstraction.
Patterns of personalised or populist rule that had always co-existed with democratic structures in the different organisations (see above) supported the former against the latter.
Instead, he demonstrates how they have consistently co-existed and have frequently exhibited a mutually reinforcing relation to one another.
