commune
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Even Lukas Graham cited the band’s roots in Christiania, a Danish enclave with a history as an anarchist commune, as an example they’re following by bailing on this tour.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Lan was an early adopter, diversifying his crop two decades ago and now boasting 400 durian trees in Ea Knuec commune, part of Dak Lak province.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
As children, cattle and lambs happily commune with bears, lions and wolves in the foreground, the background depicts William Penn making a treaty with Tamanend, chief of the Lenape Nation, and founding Pennsylvania.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
He also visits a religious commune and witnesses actual generosity only to remain apathetic about repentance or emotional growth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
Guiteau spent the Civil War years at the commune.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
“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
Years later, Morris communed with JFK’s memory regularly, as a volunteer tour guide at the Kennedy Center.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 20, 2021
I went to blues parties in dark basements, where black queer folk communed.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 2, 2020
Oppenheimer had received his doctorate only two years earlier under Max Born at Gottingen, where he had communed with such rising stars of quantum mechanics as Werner Heisenberg and Paul Ehrenfest.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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
The car robs us of our innocence, and we can only recapture that by communing and reintroducing ourselves to the natural world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
“I am communing with the alligator,” I said.
From "Louisiana's Way Home" by Kate DiCamillo
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