commune
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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
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
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
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
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
Well, he’s the man who played Locke in Lost – a character who communed with the evil that was a part of the island that show was set on.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 23, 2018
I hear no one who has not communed with me!
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
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
Hikers jostling for space on packed trails have turned communing with nature into a contact sport.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
She turned around to find her crisp-knickered daughter communing with cement marsupials.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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Schooled
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