How to Use symbiosis in a Sentence

symbiosis

noun
  • The bird lives in symbiosis with the hippopotamus.
  • Their professional association was one of symbiosis.
  • There’s a kind of weird symbiosis, like with an avatar.
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Aug. 2022
  • This new symbiosis has been a catastrophe for both the Democrats and for the poor.
    Joshua Mitchell, National Review, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The power of Kim and Kanye was in perfect balance, their worlds in symbiosis.
    Allison P. Davis, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2021
  • The symbiosis of people and stories is unique in at least one regard.
    Ferris Jabr, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
  • Since Rhythm was built literally across the hall from Mars, the symbiosis was ripe.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 24 Mar. 2021
  • This new symbiosis, of course, brings its own challenges.
    Robert Fenton, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
  • But their personas are created by the symbiosis with the crowd.
    Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2016
  • The twin-flame combo may be one of nature’s purest forms of culinary symbiosis.
    New York Times, 18 May 2022
  • Dogs didn’t evolve specifically to live in symbiosis with humans just to be tied to a six-foot rope.
    Wes Siler, Outside Online, 20 June 2017
  • Still, the flashy new Mithraeum is evidence that some have found a symbiosis in using the past to try to make their projects more palatable to locals.
    Megan Gannon, Popular Science, 13 Apr. 2020
  • One theme of Anadol’s work is the symbiosis and tension between people and machines.
    Tom Simonite, Wired, 16 Jan. 2020
  • For Jean Paul Kahamba, 32, a teacher who had come to cheer the pope on Thursday, the symbiosis was even simpler.
    Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2023
  • This can still be a touchy subject, the sometimes uneasy symbiosis among chef, wait staff and diner.
    Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2021
  • The Poppy already open on North Side, the block has the potential for nightcrawling symbiosis.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 4 June 2020
  • What forms between her and Deborah is a kind of sick symbiosis.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 13 May 2021
  • The knotty symbiosis between cis women and gay men is one.
    Wesley Morris, New York Times, 30 July 2022
  • O’Neill was going to have to play matchmaker and create a new symbiosis from scratch.
    Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2016
  • The two live in symbiosis — organisms that feed off each other to maintain the balance.
    Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 6 Feb. 2020
  • People who think their bodies are just meant to carry their heads around overlook the symbiosis between the two.
    Susan Lahey, Popular Mechanics, 12 May 2023
  • With outside noise, and the pressure to get takeaways piling up, this kind of symbiosis was needed.
    Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 7 Nov. 2021
  • This rural fortress, also with limestone walls, is now in symbiosis with the people.
    Joe Grimm, Detroit Free Press, 15 July 2017
  • However, is works in symbiosis with the lush, verdant resort of Valea Verde.
    Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes, 11 July 2022
  • But scientists have studied this species as a model of symbiosis for more than three decades.
    Quanta Magazine, 19 Feb. 2019
  • But, rather than slicing a clean divide between the two of them, Sedgwick Wohl asserts, Warhol embraced the idea of their symbiosis.
    Hillary Kelly, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2022
  • That symbiosis makes a great deal of sense after so much time playing together with Tom.
    Gary Graff, cleveland, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Change can be frightening, even for those who disapprove of the symbiosis between church and state.
    New York Times, 7 Dec. 2020
  • An equally perverse symbiosis between the government and insurgents can be found in Mexico, where the per capita homicide rate is at least as high as that of Congo or Nigeria.
    Jason K. Stearns, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
  • People, domesticated crops, and livestock multiplied and were drawn into an ever-tighter symbiosis.
    Walter Scheidel, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022

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