as in to relate
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 commune
Jennifer Culp, Them, 27 Sep. 2024
After three years of work, the little house is now ready to welcome the public drawn by both its charming comforts and its enviable location that allows guests to commune with nature.
—Annabelle Dufraigne, Architectural Digest, 10 Aug. 2024
Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
Many of these groups also saw restrictions on free speech as a threat to their liberty of belief—and indeed their liberty to imagine new ways to commune, see, and be.
—Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
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Social plans are canceled and action is off the table until you’re finished communing with the shadows.
—Jennifer Culp, Them, 27 Sep. 2024
After three years of work, the little house is now ready to welcome the public drawn by both its charming comforts and its enviable location that allows guests to commune with nature.
—Annabelle Dufraigne, Architectural Digest, 10 Aug. 2024
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Metzger ended up in Leeds in an ORT training school learning woodworking and eventually found work in a furniture factory outside Leeds in the country on the Harwood Estate, before moving to a radical Marxist commune in Bristol where Metzger found the politics too extreme.
—Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
Many of these groups also saw restrictions on free speech as a threat to their liberty of belief—and indeed their liberty to imagine new ways to commune, see, and be.
—Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
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Other income was $43,000, compared to $55,000 in the previous year, due to a lower cash balance and related lower interest income.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
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The pair was introduced by Beyoncé’s mother, Tina Knowles, who affectionately referred to Rowland as one of her bonus daughters, though the two are not biologically related.Mikelle Street, WWD, 26 Oct. 2024
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Returning from larger stomping grounds to run one of the state’s most diverse cities is not always the smoothest transition, political experts have said.Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
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The glittering city is back Wednesday-Jan. 12, 2025.John Wenzel, The Denver Post, 14 Nov. 2024
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Vice presidential candidate Tim Walz and potential first gentleman Doug Emhoff were seen just offstage, bonding over the historic Bon Jovi/R.E.M. rock summit meeting.Chris Willman, Variety, 5 Nov. 2024
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Guitarist Peter Buck met art student and singer Michael Stipe in a local record store where Buck worked, bonding over their love of the Monkees.Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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The Ravel makes several stops in idyllic medieval towns along the Rhône, including Avignon, Viviers, and Arles – the lovely Roman town where Vincent van Gogh created some of his most memorable work.James Rampton, theweek, 6 Nov. 2024
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Dixville Notch — a tiny New Hampshire town located near the Canadian border — announced that Kamala Harris and Donald Trump tied in their local race, hours before polling places opened around the rest of the country.Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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As in Lightroom, clicking Denoise opens a window that shows an area of your photo in close detail with the correction active.PCMAG, PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024
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Testers who clicked into the Arcade 88 agreed that this versatile frontside ski will speak to a wide range of skiers.Outside Editors, Outside Online, 11 Nov. 2024
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The village is part of the Town of Warwick, which said in a statement that voluntary evacuations were in effect for residents along one road, power was shut off as a precaution during a prescribed burn, and another key road was restricted to a single lane for residents.Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2024
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Since then, the village has also undergone a major expansion.Simone McCarthy, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
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Even Winston Churchill, who developed a flair for painting in the South of France, fell for the charms of this fairytale hamlet: it is widely believed that a canvas depicting a street corner with a fountain was painted by the statesman here in the mid-1940s.Alexandra Zagalsky, theweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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The area has long been divided between the liberal university town of State College, which anchors the region, and the conservative hamlets that surround it.Chris Megerian, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2024
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“Commune.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commune. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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