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- noun Plural form of
commune .
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Examples
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Scribe, lived in communes, worked in restaurants, wrote obscure, experimental fiction, and quit his job often in order to hit the road and have adventures.
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Universalize everything, we can all make the same wage, live in communes, be educated from only only one viewpoint, sound familiar?
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It turned out that not just people in communes were interested, a lot of people were.
Stewart Brand: My plan B for climate change Damian Carrington 2010
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Within communes, he argued, sexual relationships could form without resort to contractual marriage or property ownership.
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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No doubt James you think we should all live in communes!
ITV News 2005
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The urge to create innumerable collective farms and industrial communes is just too strong in this ABOMINATION and the tendency to ram specific pieces of unpopular legislation down the people’s throats, whether they approve or not, because its supposedly for their own good, will persist despite unfavorable electoral results.
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Mr. Gutman aims ultimately to have visited each of the 589 administrative districts—known as communes—in the country.
Every Day Is Someplace in Belgium for an Ambassador Keen to See It All Frances Robinson 2012
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And it is not a nice place to raise kids, since you are not allowed to raise children; they are all raised by the non-state in communes.
Reader Challenge #5B - The Coolest Science Fiction Setting (TV/Film) 2006
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The league of the communes was a thorn for the empire and in 1220 Frederick II tried once more to break it and to conquer the Guelph republics of Lombardy.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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With this object it was decided that the people of Orléans with the folk from the communes, that is, from the villages, should make a feigned attack on the
The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 Anatole France 1884
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