commune
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Their work takes the pair to a variety of locations, from a coastal fishing village, to a sustainable commune and a rugby club.
From BBC ● May 19, 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
Cascadian started as a kind of hippie commune in 1972, founded by a fellow named Gene Kahn and his friends.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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“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
In point of fact, I communed with it even more meaningfully this time, and not merely because of the stagecraft or the sentimental pull of a theater world striving to be whole again.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 3, 2021
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
I hear no one who has not communed with me!
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
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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
Yet it also feels loving, a way of communing with the departed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2023
It pleases me to think I’m communing with her, this unknown woman.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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