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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Recent Examples of commune
Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
The shop is owned by Georgia Gersh, who was born and raised north of Taos and grew up on one of the area’s former communes.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2025
Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
That our references and experiences of the world are so different that even a shared language could not allow humans to commune with an animal.
—Leila Latif, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
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Verb
Herculine follows a young trans woman who decides to fight her malaise—and her demonic visions—by joining her ex’s trans girl commune in rural Indiana.
—Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
The shop is owned by Georgia Gersh, who was born and raised north of Taos and grew up on one of the area’s former communes.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
People were going out to commune and be around other people.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
That our references and experiences of the world are so different that even a shared language could not allow humans to commune with an animal.
—Leila Latif, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
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Verb
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Frishkorn said the investigation will determine if the accident was alcohol or speed-related, but witnesses have indicated both of those may have been a factor.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
20 Oct. 2025
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The high court is already considering a separate, but related, dispute regarding National Guard deployment in Chicago where different federal court decisions have temporarily halted presidential intervention.—
Anna Commander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The Tunnels of Moose Jaw is one of the major attractions of Saskatchewan’s fourth largest city.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
20 Oct. 2025
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Expands to the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown LA next weekend, ahead on a theatrical roadshow opening in one new city each week.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
19 Oct. 2025
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Stressful experiences also can help people bond.—
Jennifer Borresen,
USA Today,
15 Oct. 2025
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My Best Friend's Wedding was Preston’s first movie, and she and Roberts, 57, bonded over both being young actresses from Georgia.—
Victoria Edel,
PEOPLE,
14 Oct. 2025
Noun
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When Singh’s successor decided to make the fort taller, its shadow fell on the hermit’s home, consequently bringing destruction to the complex and surrounding towns.—
Sophie Friedman,
AFAR Media,
22 Oct. 2025
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The boat was intercepted off the northern coast of Venezuela, near a small fishing town called San Juan de Unare, which, in the past two decades, has become a transit point for the smuggling of cocaine and marijuana.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
21 Oct. 2025
Verb
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For tickets and more information, click here.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
17 Oct. 2025
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The Irish don’t have like-for-like replacements for Craig or Rubio, which leaves Freeman scrambling to stabilize an offensive line yet to click and a defensive interior that has tried to use quantity to make up for a lack of quality.—
Pete Sampson,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Every village has a place where young people and kids gather to have fun, and mostly, if there is a ball, the kids play football.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Oct. 2025
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In 1940, the Oakland County suburb north of Detroit officially became a city, but more than a century later, the town has maintained its small-town village charm.—
Lyndsay C. Green,
Freep.com,
21 Oct. 2025
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Known as Mill Farm, the immensse estate sits in the tiny hamlet of Ancramdale, about 100 miles north of Manhattan.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
20 Oct. 2025
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The officials decided to delay the town’s aboveground reconstruction and instead put all of their efforts into a regional underground school that would accommodate 450 students from 18 nearby hamlets.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
19 Oct. 2025
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“Commune.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commune. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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