commune
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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
It serves as a business commune for young tech founders and other entrepreneurs who all live and work there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 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
That’s why we go out there, to commune with nature.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
Although the Evening Star commune had only been around a few years, its college-educated freaks had nevertheless beaten the system out of cattle permits on some very rich terrain adjoining acreage controlled by Eusebio Lavadie.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
“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
I went to blues parties in dark basements, where black queer folk communed.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 2, 2020
After that we inspected two new dams with water building slowly behind them, and at several drinking stations communed with a small herd of recently purchased cattle.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
Haddock told Salon that he grew up celebrating Juneteenth as a sort of church day, communing with his family and community.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 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
Andrew McIntosh’s “Learning” led off a Wild Up concert in BP Hall, with a percussionist communing intriguing small sounds with those from field recordings made in Angeles National Forest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2024
“I am communing with the alligator,” I said.
From "Louisiana's Way Home" by Kate DiCamillo
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