commune
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Lan was an early adopter, diversifying his crop two decades ago and now boasting 400 durian trees in Ea Knuec commune, part of Dak Lak province.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
At a time of societal fracture and backsliding, “Liberation” offered audiences the opportunity to commune collectively with a watershed movement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
He wrote a goodbye note and left the small commune in the Pyrenees in the dead of night.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
It serves as a business commune for young tech founders and other entrepreneurs who all live and work there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
The days of Garland as a thriving commune were over long before I was born in 1994.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
“The Greeks believed that sleeping on a grave might give you dreams in which you communed with a spirit,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2025
There, he visited the Musée du Luxembourg and communed with paintings by Cézanne that became “clearer and more beautiful if you were belly-empty, hollow-hungry.”
From New York Times ● May 15, 2023
Worshippers have already prayed and communed at the site on Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Island, while the general public will be allowed in next month.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2023
He founded the Patuxent Riverkeeper and took up the mantle as a public voice of the river — the river with which he had so often communed.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2020
Oppenheimer had received his doctorate only two years earlier under Max Born at Gottingen, where he had communed with such rising stars of quantum mechanics as Werner Heisenberg and Paul Ehrenfest.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Post-release he lives in self-exile in Bangkok, communing online with clients back in Myanmar.
From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025
Although there are no figurative features at all, they appear to be communing among themselves and with you.
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2025
Like Ann, Seyfried is wholly committed to the vision, singing, dancing and reaching her hands to God with such celestial fervor that it feels as though she really is communing with something unseen.
From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2025
The car robs us of our innocence, and we can only recapture that by communing and reintroducing ourselves to the natural world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
“I saw you communing with the angel as well as your grandmother.”
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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Schooled
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