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communal

[kuh-myoon-l, kom-yuh-nl] / kəˈmyun l, ˈkɒm yə nl /


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Watching the movie in its original format, with an ecstatic audience in a packed theater, was transporting, communal, enough to make one sentimental.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

The need for a communal outlet for hope was not lost on the Broad.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

In the 1960s and ’70s, communal radicals and intellectuals such as E.F.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

The prosecution said reconnaissance of Zeraati began in March 2023 when Stana was stopped by police in a rear communal garden at Zeraati's address in Wimbledon, having flown in from Bucharest.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

Acorns and caterpillars dotted the asphalt loop that framed the complex of about a dozen brick buildings, all identical, embedded in a communal expanse of log chips.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri




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