Can the word "coexist" be used for more than two things/people/subjects/... etc?
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Yes, the definition does not impose any limits on this:
Exist at the same time or in the same place.
(source: Lexico)
and there are some example sentences there as well which imply more than two subjects:
- Modern Western medical practices coexist with traditional healing methods and the use of medicinal plants.
- Nobody has convincingly explained how the birds, bees, flowers and hares of the uplands can coexist with a new influx of humans.
- Amazon plants, evergreen pines, basil and other strange flora coexisted in perfect harmony.
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From wikitionary:
coexistence (countable and uncountable, plural coexistences): The state of two or more things existing together, usually in a temporal or spatial sense, with or without mutual interaction.
So yes, more than 2 subjects can coexist together.