How to Use symbiosis in a Sentence

symbiosis

noun
  • The bird lives in symbiosis with the hippopotamus.
  • Their professional association was one of symbiosis.
  • Both sides profit—that’s the essence of symbiosis.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2018
  • In other words, there is a symbiosis.
    — Trevor Clawson, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The symbiosis of people and stories is unique in at least one regard.
    — Ferris Jabr, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
  • This new symbiosis has been a catastrophe for both the Democrats and for the poor.
    — Joshua Mitchell, National Review, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The twin-flame combo may be one of nature’s purest forms of culinary symbiosis.
    — New York Times, 18 May 2022
  • The movement was like a symbiosis that happens.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 12 Dec. 2025
  • But their personas are created by the symbiosis with the crowd.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2016
  • But scientists have studied this species as a model of symbiosis for more than three decades.
    — Quanta Magazine, 19 Feb. 2019
  • 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
  • What forms between her and Deborah is a kind of sick symbiosis.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 13 May 2021
  • This can still be a touchy subject, the sometimes uneasy symbiosis among chef, wait staff and diner.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2021
  • This rural fortress, also with limestone walls, is now in symbiosis with the people.
    — Joe Grimm, Detroit Free Press, 15 July 2017
  • Kondo acknowledges a symbiosis with death cleaning, and with hygge, lykke and lagom.
    — Lucy Feldman, Time, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Nutrient exchange is a major driver of symbiosis and is found across a wide range of species.
    — Jenny Lehmann, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
  • As official partners, the two schools will be in deeper symbiosis.
    — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 16 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • That symbiosis makes a great deal of sense after so much time playing together with Tom.
    — Gary Graff, cleveland, 20 Nov. 2020
  • The two live in symbiosis — organisms that feed off each other to maintain the balance.
    — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 6 Feb. 2020
  • With outside noise, and the pressure to get takeaways piling up, this kind of symbiosis was needed.
    — Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 7 Nov. 2021
  • Change can be frightening, even for those who disapprove of the symbiosis between church and state.
    — New York Times, 7 Dec. 2020
  • The power of Kim and Kanye was in perfect balance, their worlds in symbiosis.
    — Allison P. Davis, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2021
  • One theme of Anadol’s work is the symbiosis and tension between people and machines.
    — Tom Simonite, Wired, 16 Jan. 2020
  • O’Neill was going to have to play matchmaker and create a new symbiosis from scratch.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2016
  • Since Rhythm was built literally across the hall from Mars, the symbiosis was ripe.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 24 Mar. 2021
  • When the locals follow the rules, this relationship can reach a tense symbiosis.
    — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
  • There’s also some symbiosis between the weather service and the airport.
    — Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Root nodules in legumes (such as beans and groundnuts) are a site of symbiosis between the plant and rhizobia bacteria.
    — Raj Patel, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2021
  • However, is works in symbiosis with the lush, verdant resort of Valea Verde.
    — Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes, 11 July 2022

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