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commuter

[kuh-myoo-ter] / kəˈmju tər /
NOUN
daily traveler, usually for work
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Major cities in the Newark division include Elizabeth, Morristown, Montclair, Newark, as well as smaller commuter towns such as Short Hills and Glen Ridge.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

Tom Anderson has owned a neighborhood pub and wine shop at the edge of Eagle Rock for seven years and thinks that offloading commuter traffic could be helpful to the area in the long run.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander said: "We'll start getting rid of the dreaded 'ironing board seats' so passengers can enjoy comfier, more pleasant journeys on some of Britain's busiest commuter routes."

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

He found that doubling back on a commuter rail line could save 20 minutes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

The commuter train hissed its brakes and screech-squealed to a stop.

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein

Survivors, including tens of thousands of residents, non-emergency civil servants, commuters and students, have to display symptoms first.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

The alerts force pupils to leave their classrooms and workers their offices and leave commuters struggling to get home as overland trains stop.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

Keeping it up for an hour, next to civilian commuters who looked ready to climb onto the tracks themselves by Buena Park?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

India’s dysfunctional urbanization provides an endless stream of videos: mounds of rotting garbage, trains overflowing with commuters, half-drowned school buses on flooded roads.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Often a group 265 of meerkats will take the stance collectively, standing in a huddle and gazing in the same direction, looking like commuters waiting for a bus.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel




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