commune
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At a time of societal fracture and backsliding, “Liberation” offered audiences the opportunity to commune collectively with a watershed movement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
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
He wrote a goodbye note and left the small commune in the Pyrenees in the dead of night.
From BBC ● May 13, 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
Gathered in the center, around a sacred drum used to commune with Wah’Kon-Tah, were several male musicians and singers.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
“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
To paleoanthropologists, especially those leaning toward magico-religious explanations, such spaces inevitably suggest rituals, making the decorated cave a kind of cathedral within which humans communed with a higher power.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 12, 2019
He’d communed with the dead, heard them whispering hints about their future.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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
Like Ann, Seyfried is wholly committed to the vision, singing, dancing and reaching her hands to God with such celestial fervor that it feels as though she really is communing with something unseen.
From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2025
Hikers jostling for space on packed trails have turned communing with nature into a contact sport.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
I’m only allowed to use the camp phone once a week because we’re supposed to be communing with nature!
From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya
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Schooled
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