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
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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 Pisces new moon creates opportunities for fulfillment through relating.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
18 Mar. 2026
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The two singers recalled their own girlhoods, bonding over growing up as tomboys during a time when it was stigmatized to prefer sports over dolls.—
Kathleen Perricone,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Apr. 2026
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Logan and Hailey hit it off on their first date after bonding over their mutual love of cheesecake.—
Jordana Comiter,
PEOPLE,
8 Apr. 2026
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For more stories impacting the rare disease community like this, sign up for the CNBC Cures newsletter by clicking here.—
Brad Quick,
CNBC,
20 Apr. 2026
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Jackson, though, kept clicking.—
Lisa Gutierrez,
Kansas City Star,
20 Apr. 2026
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“Communing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/communing. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.
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