Thesaurus results for COMMUNING

communing

verb

present participle of commune

as in relating

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 communing After reigniting their own love for the game, spending hours on end at Chess Forum, one of the oldest chess clubs in New York, Z began imagining how to cultivate their own space that celebrated learning and teaching the game in a way emphasizing communing and knowing one's neighbors. —

Inés Anguiano, Bon Appetit Magazine, 10 Feb. 2026 From Jesus to Wordsworth, people wandered into the wilderness in hopes of communing with a greater power, to be forced to confront their truest selves. —

Literary Hub, 16 Jan. 2026 Even the film’s central idea of a child communing with giant, surreal automatons — such a eerily resonant image, recalling James Whale’s original Frankenstein — is ultimately a nonstarter. —

Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025 During camp, Edwards said kids enjoy the various activities available such as arts and crafts, archery, basketball, canoeing, the rock climbing wall, fishing, hiking, kayaking, swimming, volleyball and the trails — not to mention simply communing with nature. —

Brian Bell, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2025

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In relating her story this way, Gisèle is restoring to the record her waking life.

— Gaby Wood, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2026
Morello himself serves as kind of a guide in the film, relating his own love of metal growing up as a Black kid in a conservative, ethnically homogeneous suburb of Chicago.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 Feb. 2026