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commune

[kuh-myoon, kom-yoon] / kəˈmjun, ˈkɒm jun /




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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

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

There are around 30 of us, maybe more — all experiencing the soundscape of the quartz bowls; a tech-free hour designed for us to commune with memory, creativity and emotion.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 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

The days of Garland as a thriving commune were over long before I was born in 1994.

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

I went to blues parties in dark basements, where black queer folk communed.

From The Guardian Jul. 2, 2020

He founded the Patuxent Riverkeeper and took up the mantle as a public voice of the river — the river with which he had so often communed.

From Washington Post Mar. 17, 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

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

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

It pleases me to think I’m communing with her, this unknown woman.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood




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