commune
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Even Lukas Graham cited the band’s roots in Christiania, a Danish enclave with a history as an anarchist commune, as an example they’re following by bailing on this tour.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
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
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
They took the birds to a commune kitchen to be shared.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
“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
Also, even though the scale of the event was overwhelming, it was less elegant than earlier concert performances where he communed with his mother’s spirit.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2021
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
Did Muriel know she had communed with the Fairy Queen?
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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 proposed court location is not, as Dahn states, in the middle of a shady grove of majestic giants, owls in every tree, people silently communing with nature.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2023
She turned around to find her crisp-knickered daughter communing with cement marsupials.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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