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verb

kə-ˈmyüt How to pronounce commute (audio)
Definition of commutenext
as in to exchange
to give up (something) and take something else in return commuting foreign currency to domestic

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noun

as in flight

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Recent Examples of commute
Verb
Laurel will attend Princeton University, Sophia will study at the University of Pennsylvania and Daylan will commute between Rutgers University and his family’s home. — David Chiu, PEOPLE, 10 July 2026 His wife relies on it to commute to her job as a nurse at Mission Hospital in Asheville. — Nora O'Neill, Charlotte Observer, 9 July 2026
Noun
As July temperatures have risen steadily over the past several decades due to climate change, the heat has turned some Americans’ commute, particularly those who bike, walk, or rely on public transportation, into a sweaty affair. — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 9 July 2026 Instead, find a way to engineer genuine positive feelings into the behavior, like Dunn cycling to work instead of braving a traffic-heavy commute. — Kevin Kruse, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for commute
Recent Examples of Synonyms for commute
  1. exchange
  2. flight
  3. trade
  4. commutation
  5. swap
  6. jaunt
  7. change
  8. tour
Verb
  • An autonomous logistics platform may need to exchange live telemetry between factories, vehicles, weather systems, inventory databases and financial software simultaneously.
    — Ivo Ivanov, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
  • The lawyers also requested that the state and federal governments preserve all evidence related to use-of-force incidents, including all video footage, incident reports, and messages exchanged among staff during the incident.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 10 July 2026
Definition of exchange
Noun
  • This test flight—the 13th full-scale Starship launch—is the second to use the Raptor 3 engine flying on SpaceX’s upgraded Starship Version 3 rocket.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 17 July 2026
  • Suspect first interviewed on day of killing Brown, whose wife was away on an international flight, spoke to two detectives at that time.
    — Amy McDaniel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 July 2026
Definition of flight
Verb
  • Home makeover shows dominated TV, house-flipping became a booming business, and first-time buyers embraced the idea of trading sweat equity for a lower purchase price.
    — Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 17 July 2026
  • When Facebook, now called Meta Platforms, debuted in 2012, its shares traded below its IPO price for more than a year.
    — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 16 July 2026
Definition of trade
Noun
  • Interim Ohio Republican Attorney General Andy Wilson expressed relief that DeWine didn't choose to use commutations and that his office will continue working to uphold the current law.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 18 June 2026
  • In Wells, after accepting the commutation, the defendant-petitioner argued that the president possessed the authority to issue only absolute pardons, not conditional ones, and that the petitioner’s acceptance of the conditional pardon was made under duress.
    — Robert Radick, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Definition of commutation
Verb
  • In terms of beauty, Zendaya has swapped out her bixie—for now—and worn her XXL hair in undulating waves and twisted crown-like braids.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 15 July 2026
  • Then Anna fails Room 7 and winds up back in Room 8, where Becca swaps the players’ table positions, so Ify reads the win condition as well and leaves.
    — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 14 July 2026
Definition of swap
Noun
  • Following Sunday’s gig, the tour will have clocked in at 1,165 days (with plenty of days off in between regional jaunts, of course).
    — Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 4 July 2026
  • But his presence was palpable here, with Eric, on a half-mile jaunt in Seattle.
    — Sam McDowell July 1, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2026
Definition of jaunt
Verb
  • Chishti said the rulings signify that future presidents could continue to change immigration policies at their discretion.
    — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
  • True, nothing so grand as a massive dragon and naval battle took place, but seeing Rhaenyra start to change into someone almost unrecognizable from her younger, more innocent self was compelling in a deeper way.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026
Definition of change
Noun
  • Across the press tour so far, Zendaya, stylist Law Roach, and glam crew including Casillas and Moreno have had a lot of fun playing with the movie’s concept—method dressing and method glamming.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 15 July 2026
  • Reed won the Masters in 2018 and received honorary life membership on the European tour, a courtesy once offered major champions.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 July 2026
Definition of tour

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