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
The team were meek in defeat, but after a weekend carousing and communing in central London, Newcastle fans arrived at Wembley with a collective hangover.
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George Caulkin, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2026
Jefferson Airplane communing in the Haight.
—Joe Hagan, Vanity Fair, 18 Mar. 2026
Let’s further stipulate that communing with a celebrity, ideally a very talented celebrity, has been a part of what Broadway has been selling for a century or more.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2026
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
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
George Caulkin, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2026
Jefferson Airplane communing in the Haight.
—Joe Hagan, Vanity Fair, 18 Mar. 2026
Let’s further stipulate that communing with a celebrity, ideally a very talented celebrity, has been a part of what Broadway has been selling for a century or more.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2026
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for communing
Verb
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The young players seem to like how Harbaugh is teaching and relating, too.—
Pat Leonard,
New York Daily News,
9 May 2026
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Some of them are old systems of knowledge, ways of relating the body to fertility, death, and survival.—
George Nelson,
ARTnews.com,
20 Apr. 2026
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The calf has been bonding with his mother, Belle, behind the scenes and learning how to swim.—
Harriet Ramos
May 7,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 May 2026
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For somebody with a 12-person kill list, Etta has a total lack of urgency, working her two jobs, bonding with her two new besties and embarking on a wholly unconvincing love story with a college student named Matt (Tyler Tomás Perez, less appealing here than on Abbott Elementary).—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
6 May 2026
Verb
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Each one can be engaged with by clicking on key moments in that particular journey.—
Anne Doran,
ARTnews.com,
11 May 2026
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Go directly to your school's official website or Canvas login page instead of clicking links in surprise emails.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
11 May 2026
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“Communing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/communing. Accessed 15 May. 2026.
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