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
  • Both of these qualities — a diminished genome and paired reproduction — point to a long-lasting and stable symbiosis.
    Quanta Magazine, 17 July 2024
  • The album is an exploration of texture, of the relationship between the body and the computer in symbiosis, altering each other to create noise.
    Madelyn Dawson, SPIN, 9 July 2024

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