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commute

[kuh-myoot] / kəˈmjut /




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Some teleworking is allowed, but employees must be working in a location from which they are able to easily return to their assigned work location within normal commute time, the audit said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Her legal team has called on the governor to commute her death sentence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

"I think, at the very least, the governor should commute Ms. Pike's death sentence to a life sentence," Ferrell said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

Gorman was the voice of the basketball team for 43 years before retiring in 2024, and even credits the beautiful condo and the easy commute it offered for contributing to the longevity of his career.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

But now he can’t get home before nine p.m. because of the long commute from the city.

From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio

It’s how she commutes between Montclair and downtown for her business and to visit family as she saves for a car while gas prices rise.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

Street signs boast of "generations of Egyptian-Chinese friendship flowing like the Nile River", while residents have been warned to plan for substantial traffic delays on their commutes.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

In D.C., home prices are up markedly in the nearby suburbs, which often come with crushing commutes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Years into trying different carrots and sticks, many companies are finding out that they need to offer more than free donuts to get employees to embrace long commutes in places like Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

Insofar as the poor have to work near the dwellings of the rich—as in the case of so many service and retail jobs—they are stuck with lengthy commutes or dauntingly expensive housing.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

His sentence was commuted, and his restitution canceled within four months of sentencing.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

Death sentences are usually commuted to life in prison in Sri Lanka due to a decades-old moratorium on executions.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Once, border migration patterns resembled a loop: thousands of laborers, mostly men, commuted here once or twice a year from Mexico to jobs in the fields, then on to other jobs once harvests were over.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Santos was sentenced to just over seven years in prison, but Trump commuted his sentence last year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

His sentence was later commuted to life in prison and then reduced to fourteen years.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

The blazes never reached Davis itself, but sometimes they kept me from commuting home to Davis when I was working in my office in Oakland.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

A university says a third of students starting courses this year are living at home or commuting to lectures so they can be "financially better off".

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Nearby developments valued at more than 11 billion ringgit could benefit from stronger pedestrian traffic, cross-border commuting, retail spending and property demand, he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Julie Whelan, CBRE’s head of U.S. occupier research, said more commuting is likely in the coming months.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

Upcars were shooting over, back and forth, people were commuting.

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson


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