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
"We term ourselves as co-housing, because we all have our separate flats," she says, and that the set-up is not a commune.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 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
Back in the sixties, when Garland was a working commune, the biggest jobs went to the people who were best qualified to handle them.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
“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
There, he visited the Musée du Luxembourg and communed with paintings by Cézanne that became “clearer and more beautiful if you were belly-empty, hollow-hungry.”
From New York Times ● May 15, 2023
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
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
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
Sixtyish Maggie Bird retired from the CIA under a cloud but has rebuilt a life for herself in Purity, Maine, raising chickens and communing with a group of CIA retirees, a.k.a the Martini Club.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2023
Of course Abel took to communing again with Amanda, and by April he was rather sure they were in touch with each other.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
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