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Definition of commutesnext
present tense third-person singular of commute
as in exchanges
to give up (something) and take something else in return commuting foreign currency to domestic

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noun

plural of commute

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Recent Examples of commutes
Verb
John Douglass commutes long distances for work and has noticed the higher gas prices. Kelly Werthmann, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2026 Van Dyke plays Rob Petrie, an affable television writer who commutes into Manhattan each day from his suburban home in New Rochelle. John Glynn, PEOPLE, 12 Dec. 2025 This millennial nurse commutes 5,000 miles from Sweden to work at a California hospital. Aman Ghei, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2025 Notably, Abbott is one of the exceedingly rare staffers on Capitol Hill who commutes weekly as a senator does. Al Weaver, The Hill, 18 Sep. 2025 Don’t dial in while your team commutes in. Jason Walker Psyd, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025 Newsom, driven by California Highway Patrol officers, effectively commutes to the state capital of Sacramento, 88 miles northeast. David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
Plus, Compass counted 32 days where these commutes took at least 30% longer than the average commute for the year. Idaho Statesman, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for commutes
Verb
  • Dorian Gray, the Victorian era’s proto-Clavicular, literally exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty—a move that the looksmaxxing community would seem to endorse wholeheartedly.
    Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 19 Jan. 2026
  • The group exchanges little looks.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Since then, the two countries have taken several measures aimed at normalizing relations, including restarting flights and disengagement of troops at the border.
    Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Most have direct, short-ish flights from the East Coast, making an 11th-hour spring break trip that much easier to pull off.
    Annie Daly, Vogue, 10 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Sweet Caroline swaps the typical dinner-and-drinks routine for something way more interactive.
    Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Reid shares videos of her skating journey to more than 46,000 Instagram followers, and Inclusive Skating swaps coaching tips and competition dates.
    ABC News, ABC News, 3 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • But that comparison is only valid if exclusively comparing regular unleaded gas and Level 3 fast chargers, which most EV drivers rarely use except for longer trips like this one.
    Adam L. Neal, USA Today, 9 Mar. 2026
  • So your first introduction to San Diego was coming down from San Francisco on work trips?
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Fundamentals Despite its dominant position in the oilfield services industry, SLB currently trades at a meaningful discount to its peers.
    Tony Zhang, CNBC, 11 Mar. 2026
  • BofA points out that the sector currently trades at 22x trailing free cash flow and 15 times enterprise value to trailing EBITDA.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 3 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Chelsea Handler gave fans their first look at her hot new partner in an Instagram post on Monday about their travels together.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2026
  • One of the more unique spaces in Malcolm Cottage is the doll room, home to hundreds of dolls collected by RFK and Ethel during their travels.
    Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 10 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Young Man in a Hurry substitutes status anxiety for race.
    Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2026
  • This kind of both-sides-ism, increasingly common in right-leaning partisan media ecosystems, substitutes balance of the blame for balance of the facts.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 16 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Her mother did the same—packing sack lunches for daylong jaunts through the maritime oak forest—even into her nineties.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Once-common jaunts across the border to shop are out of the picture.
    Alex Harring, CNBC, 7 Mar. 2026

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“Commutes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commutes. Accessed 15 Mar. 2026.

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