Learn English – Can the word “coexist” be used for more than two things/people/subjects/… etc

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Can the word "coexist" be used for more than two things/people/subjects/… etc?

For example:

The three communities complement each other and it will be marvelous to coexist side by side.

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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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