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
As children, cattle and lambs happily commune with bears, lions and wolves in the foreground, the background depicts William Penn making a treaty with Tamanend, chief of the Lenape Nation, and founding Pennsylvania.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 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
Gathered in the center, around a sacred drum used to commune with Wah’Kon-Tah, were several male musicians and singers.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
“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 have not communed with another daraja in years.”
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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
Like Ann, Seyfried is wholly committed to the vision, singing, dancing and reaching her hands to God with such celestial fervor that it feels as though she really is communing with something unseen.
From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2025
Andrew McIntosh’s “Learning” led off a Wild Up concert in BP Hall, with a percussionist communing intriguing small sounds with those from field recordings made in Angeles National Forest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2024
He spent hours communing with them, preening their feathers with a stick while sitting in the dust and gobbling softly at them.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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