communal
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The communal dining hall never had enough food, and the boys were always hungry.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
And for the first time, I had a real understanding of what a book club can do — bringing readers together to make a solitary endeavor a communal one.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
There is another en-suite bedroom, and two bedrooms share a communal bathroom.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026
The two localities, home to about 40,000 people, decided to take radical action around 25 years ago after predictions that their communal rubbish dump would be full by 2004.
From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026
I go to see if anyone has bothered to start the hominy in the big communal cook pot.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
Vocabulary lists containing communal
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