I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
peasant
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Above all he sought to dismantle the traditional peasant commune .
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At its centre stood the peasant commune , they believed, had preserved the peasantry from the corruption of private property.
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During the 1860s and 70s the populists attributed to the primitive peasant commune all the characteristics of a latent socialist order.
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Chicherin stopped writing private memoranda and started a debate on the peasant commune .
■ VERB
live
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Do you think I should go and live in a commune in San Francisco?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a religious commune
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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During the commune heydays of the early 1970s, the ranch collected a typically renegade group of cultural misfits.
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Even the most eager activists of 1965 soon headed for the hills of Santa Barbara and the communes of Vermont.
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For example, communes have difficulty in coping with adolescent children.
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The commune was doomed by the spread of market relations and the peasantry were becoming divided between capitalists and propertyless rural labourers.
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The income of the communes and cities in that year was 229 billion dinars.
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The place was a lot cleaner than in commune days.
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This covered the extraction of gold-bearing deposits beneath territory belonging to the commune of Régina.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By refusing to let them in the house, you will help them commune with the elements.
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Having communed with their beginnings they wanted to die where they were without enduring the day ahead of them.
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I come to commune with the sea.
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I felt we were communing with something deeper than words.
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Intimacy is marked by cycles of encounter and withdrawal which ideally involve trusting in absence, as well as communing in each other's presence.
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It is a place to commune with other women.
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Like Moses, they climb their mountains alone, communing with creation if not the creator.