commune
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He wrote a goodbye note and left the small commune in the Pyrenees in the dead of night.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
And he was born in Bondy, the Paris commune where Kylian Mbappe and William Saliba come from.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 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
Just as Meathead left his wife to move into a commune, Reiner left security to forge his reputation on his own terms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025
We’re going to sit in the darkness now, together among her canned pickles, to commune with her dead son.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
“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
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
The coffin was carried on a horse-drawn wagon to the cemetery, and all the way I communed with death’s angels, questioning their choice of time, place and person.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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
Yet it also feels loving, a way of communing with the departed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2023
“I saw you communing with the angel as well as your grandmother.”
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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