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commune

[kuh-myoon, kom-yoon] / kəˈmjun, ˈkɒm jun /




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After the explosion at an apartment building near Monaco's border with France, a suspect was seen fleeing towards the French commune of Beausoleil.

From BBC Jul. 3, 2026

Proto-Town, a 1,200-acre campus in Lockhart, Texas, serves as a business commune for “hard tech” founders and was valued at $100 million last month.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 24, 2026

And he was born in Bondy, the Paris commune where Kylian Mbappe and William Saliba come from.

From BBC Feb. 2, 2026

Most of the 18 passengers were teachers from Hanoi on a charity trip to Lao Cai province, where the accident occurred on a long downhill stretch in Phinh Ho commune.

From Barron's Dec. 27, 2025

I didn’t care if he grew up on Pluto, let alone some hippie commune.

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

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

I went to blues parties in dark basements, where black queer folk communed.

From The Guardian Jul. 2, 2020

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

He’d communed with the dead, heard them whispering hints about their future.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Mr. Hayward isn’t trying to impress Lizzie Bennet; he’s communing with Mary, in all of her meek and geeky glory.

From Salon Jun. 25, 2026

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

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’m only allowed to use the camp phone once a week because we’re supposed to be communing with nature!

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya




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