as in to relate
to form a close personal relationship
after a week in the wilderness, the scouts were really starting to commune with nature
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Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2026
From the Oklahoma Frontier Drugstore Museum documenting the history of pharmacies, drugstores and medical media, to the Boomerang Diner, visitors will see history and present day communing with each other.
—Josh Kelly, Oklahoman, 13 Mar. 2026
ABC News, 22 Mar. 2026
Before earning degrees in math and physics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, Cornman lived in a Buddhist commune in Northern California for three years.
—Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
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Verb
Let’s further stipulate that communing with celebrity, ideally very talented celebrity, has been a part of what Broadway has been selling for a century or more.
—Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2026
From the Oklahoma Frontier Drugstore Museum documenting the history of pharmacies, drugstores and medical media, to the Boomerang Diner, visitors will see history and present day communing with each other.
—Josh Kelly, Oklahoman, 13 Mar. 2026
Noun
For two hours, Claire Jefferies wanted to get away from the war in Iran and the rising gas prices and just commune with nature.
—ABC News, 22 Mar. 2026
Before earning degrees in math and physics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, Cornman lived in a Buddhist commune in Northern California for three years.
—Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for commune
Verb
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The spatial distance and how closely the mushrooms are genetically related also seem to be factors.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
2 May 2026
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Last year, out of 111 fatalities across the state, 102 were speed-related.—
Kristi Miller,
Twin Cities,
2 May 2026
Noun
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Federal agents can access private city data, coordinate with local police and tear families apart without warning.—
Teresa Liu,
Daily News,
4 May 2026
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The cost of living in Los Angeles and in major cities across the country has really gone up.—
Gene Maddaus,
Variety,
4 May 2026
Verb
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Both were booked Wednesday night into the Jefferson Parish Jail for security reasons and have since bonded out.—
Meredith Deliso,
ABC News,
30 Apr. 2026
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Musgraves and Lambert bonded over something else in their duet, beyond horse riding prowess and marital horror stories.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
29 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Our neighbors were Blacks and Puerto Ricans, working-class Irish and Italians, and some Jews who hadn’t yet moved on, plus the legions of us new immigrants, from Asia and Eastern Europe and the Caribbean, who’d ended up in this commuter town north of New York City.—
Chang-rae Lee,
New Yorker,
3 May 2026
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One afternoon in November, just north of the small Oregon coastal town of Yachats, a juvenile humpback whale tumbled ashore.—
Robin Romm,
The Atlantic,
2 May 2026
Verb
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To read the results of previous reader polls, click here.—
Baltimore Sun staff,
Baltimore Sun,
3 May 2026
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August 23 – September 22 A broader perspective helps something click into place today.—
Tarot.com,
New York Daily News,
2 May 2026
Noun
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McKellar was a hunter on the Auch Estate, a 68 square mile, 28,200-acre farm with its own village of homes in the Scottish Highlands near Bridge of Orchy.—
Jessica Sager,
PEOPLE,
2 May 2026
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Aws al-Nasaan is carried after being shot in the West Bank village of Al-Mughayyir.—
Molly Hunter,
NBC news,
2 May 2026
Noun
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From a practical standpoint, outstate cities, towns and hamlets either could not or did not want to spend more taxpayer money on new flags and seals and new paint jobs for public equipment.—
Joe Soucheray,
Twin Cities,
2 May 2026
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Historically, Biarritz—a small seaside hamlet on France’s southwestern coast—has closely competed with its eastern neighbors on the Med.—
Monica Mendal,
Vogue,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Commune.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commune. Accessed 6 May. 2026.
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