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Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
Students helped design traffic garden Roll Hill students in kindergarten to third grade helped design the school's traffic garden by drawing what they're used to seeing in their neighborhoods and on their commute from home to school.
—Elizabeth B. Kim, Cincinnati Enquirer, 14 Oct. 2025
Amy McCarthy, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
Trump’s decision to commute Santos’ sentence came after multiple friends and allies of the imprisoned ex-politician made appeals for his clemency, a senior White House official told NBC News on Friday evening.
—Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2025
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Verb
The job comes with an annual salary range of up to $315,967, plus benefits, and the new city manager will be expected to help address Brentwood’s most pressing issues, including the imbalance between jobs and housing and the long commute times residents face.
—Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
Students helped design traffic garden Roll Hill students in kindergarten to third grade helped design the school's traffic garden by drawing what they're used to seeing in their neighborhoods and on their commute from home to school.
—Elizabeth B. Kim, Cincinnati Enquirer, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
Because Santos’ sentence was commuted, he will be released from prison but his convictions will remain on his record.
—Amy McCarthy, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
Trump’s decision to commute Santos’ sentence came after multiple friends and allies of the imprisoned ex-politician made appeals for his clemency, a senior White House official told NBC News on Friday evening.
—Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for commute
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This comes after Hamas and Israel have exchanged surviving hostages and prisoners in the first phase of a ceasefire deal for the war in Gaza.—
NPR,
NPR,
15 Oct. 2025
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The Kansas Young Republicans organization was deactivated on Tuesday following an investigation by Politico into a trove of racist and derogatory messages exchanged in a group chat between young GOP members in four states.—
Matthew Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
15 Oct. 2025
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The program will also focus on electronic systems within aircraft such as communication, navigation and other flight instruments.—
Sydney Sasser,
Arkansas Online,
16 Oct. 2025
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The Lakewood brewery will debut its own signature pickle beer alongside a Pickled Bloody Mary seltzer bar, pickle beer flights, and a pickle beer chugging contest.—
John Wenzel,
Denver Post,
16 Oct. 2025
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The Atlanta Hawks traded for Kristaps Porziņģis, a former All-Star who is too accomplished to fit into this category.—
Fred Katz,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Additionally, Dunkin's classic chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry frosted donuts are trading their usual sprinkles for a festive chocolate-and-orange blend this season.—
Gabe Hauari,
USA Today,
15 Oct. 2025
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With the Supreme Court's order Monday, Maxwell's final hope of winning an early release may be in obtaining a pardon or sentence commutation from President Donald Trump, who is a former friend of both her and Epstein.—
Dan Mangan,
CNBC,
6 Oct. 2025
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Newsom granted a commutation to Arthur Battle, convicted of murder for a 2006 contract killing.—
Daniel Lempres,
Sacbee.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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Francesca and her new husband Sir John Kilmartin are headed to his estate in Scotland with Eloise and his cousin, Michaela Stirling (a character gender swapped from the books).—
Kathleen Newman-Bremang,
Refinery29,
14 Oct. 2025
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Khloé and Kris swapped places, while Kim and Kourtney paired up to trade jabs.—
Andrea Wurzburger,
PEOPLE,
14 Oct. 2025
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For those eager to travel further afield this Halloween season, a jaunt to the Transylvanian Alps should fit the bill.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
18 Oct. 2025
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That's fine for punting around town and the occasional weekend jaunt beyond city limits.—
Abhimanyu Ghoshal,
New Atlas,
16 Oct. 2025
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Many other Big Tech companies also slashed their headcounts around that time as the pandemic receded and consumer demand trends changed.—
Jason Del Rey,
Fortune,
15 Oct. 2025
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Learning from the wind The company revealed that the new wind turbine adapts to changing wind conditions in real time.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Oct. 2025
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The below-ground theme park, as historian Ashleigh Androsoff explains, offers tours purporting to tell two local stories.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
20 Oct. 2025
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According to The Dallas Morning News, the new junior tour will feature 10-12 events in 2026, eliminating entry fees and membership costs.—
Julio Cesar Valdera Morales,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Oct. 2025
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“Commute.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commute. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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