symbiosis
This symbiotic relationship is echoed in the clams and other mollusks that also rely on the bacteria for food.
an experiment aimed at learning whether scientists can help corals adapt by providing them with symbiotic partners better prepared to cope with waters that are growing warmer
While having a caddie can improve a golfer's game, the relationship is symbiotic.
This small, symbiotic world of designers, editors and retailers influences what men will wear for the next few seasons.
Their work relationship is even more symbiotic. Not only do they edit the magazine together, they tend to edit manuscripts in tandem.

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Essential or necessary
a man's gotta do what a man's gotta doidiom
baked in
basically
basis
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box ticking
elemental
gotta
hang
hang on/upon something
have occasion to do somethingidiom
if need beidiom
lifeline
meat and potatoesidiom
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necessary evil
owe
stand or fall by somethingidiom
symbiosis
symbiotically

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Examples of symbiotic

symbiotic
The symbiotic state enables the lichen thallus to colonize extreme habitats where the separate bionts would not be able to survive.
Macromolecules associated with the cell walls of symbiotic dinoflagellates.
While their tasks were different, a necessary symbiotic relationship existed between actors' and sellers' performances.
Today the symbiotic but also parasitic relationship between learning and earning may be felt most forcefully in the academic world, particularly in the liberal arts.
On the thorax of the female are the mycangia in which the spores of the symbiotic ambrosia fungus are transported.
In ignoring the vital, symbiotic relationship we have to audience, have we been teaching our young actors to rehearse, but not to perform?
Arguably, bicontinuous structures may exist in the architectures of symbiotic relationships and amongst populations of organisms.
Several transcriptional activators are responsible for bringing about the switch from the free living to the symbiotic nitrogen fixing lifestyle in the host legume.
These habitats are usually considered as nutrient poor14,15, giving rise to the need for obligate and facultative symbiotic interactions between coexisting organisms and epiphytes.
It developed, as and when it could, in a symbiotic relationship with politics, with economic policy.
The relationship between phonetics and phonology has not always been symbiotic.
In short, there is no indication that ' symbiotic ' relations ever existed $!
The current symbiotic function of these domiciles is quite clear.
The airs performed at court reflected this symbiotic relationship while emphasising the close ties between virtue and military action.
This created a symbiotic and inter-dependent relationship between them that sometimes blurred the subtle difference between ' alliance' and ' alignment'.
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