as in collective
used or done by a number of people as a group
the swimming pool is part of the communal property of the condo complex
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Recent Examples of communal
Simple activities like communal lunches and happy hours are particularly appreciated by employees of all types.
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Constance Noonan Hadley
sarah L. Wright, Harvard Business Review, 1 Nov. 2024
Residents also get access to storage space, shared common areas, communal bathrooms and a kitchen.
—Shawna Chen, Axios, 31 Oct. 2024
For example, mobile refuge rooms by the nonprofit and real estate collective Designing Justice + Designing Spaces presents 10-by-10-foot, modular transitional units for people leaving prison, meant to be clustered in a communal environment.
—Jacoba Urist, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Nov. 2024
The communal themes continued throughout the day, exuded by Hairtok 101, Inside Mielle, and the first Beauty Trailblazers panel featuring Summer Fridays.
—Akili King, Essence, 4 Nov. 2024
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Constance Noonan Hadley
sarah L. Wright, Harvard Business Review, 1 Nov. 2024
Residents also get access to storage space, shared common areas, communal bathrooms and a kitchen.
—Shawna Chen, Axios, 31 Oct. 2024
For example, mobile refuge rooms by the nonprofit and real estate collective Designing Justice + Designing Spaces presents 10-by-10-foot, modular transitional units for people leaving prison, meant to be clustered in a communal environment.
—Jacoba Urist, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Nov. 2024
The communal themes continued throughout the day, exuded by Hairtok 101, Inside Mielle, and the first Beauty Trailblazers panel featuring Summer Fridays.
—Akili King, Essence, 4 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for communal
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The busy news cycle will quickly move on from Insurance-Fraud Bear, and soon this whole ordeal will fade from our collective memory, much like the many silly bear stories of yesteryear.Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 18 Nov. 2024
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That’s the role Santa, who loves children but (according to some versions of the legend) is childless himself, plays in the pop-culture collective psyche, which makes Asner’s Santa really click.Katie Rife, Vulture, 16 Nov. 2024
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The family is planning a joint funeral for mother and son to be held Nov. 22.Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2024
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Until the postwar period, Paju and Haigh write, IBM’s operations outside the US were a mishmash of joint ventures, subsidiaries, and licensing agreements with no unified strategy.Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 21 Nov. 2024
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This encourages peer-to-peer recognition, fostering a culture of mutual respect.Expert Panel®, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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Plummer also claimed that Pound contacted their mutual landscaper to remove and dispose of his mother's items following her death.Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 21 Nov. 2024
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“Communal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/communal. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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