communal
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In the communal building where she lived during the blockade of Leningrad, “there was no person or family, no apartment without acute diarrhea, sometimes up to nineteen-twenty times a day.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
When the temperature was well below zero, Freidenberg recalls, the unheated communal apartment on the floor above “flooded us with excrement.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
"In order to actually break that, you have to provide an enriching, communal, social life," said Morin.
From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026
It turns out that a communal caseworker never got to the resubmitted paperwork.
From Slate • Apr. 19, 2026
Lutheran congregations were expected to be active participants in the service, with communal hymn-singing given high status.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Vocabulary lists containing communal
Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791)
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