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communal
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  • They sat in the living room dipping bread into a communal dish of stew.
  • She argues that true equality demands communal raising of children.
    communal = by a community rather than by individuals
  • How could I even fantasize about going to some school far away where you pay a fortune to live in dorms full of strangers, with communal bathrooms and cafeterias and no private spaces to be crazy in?  (source)
    communal = shared
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  • ...they chewed up and spat out the bark of a tree into a communal pot and then got drunk on it.  (source)
    communal = shared
  • All money was held by Bootsie and used communally.  (source)
    communally = in a manner where it was shared
  • For some school paper, my daddy once wrote, "Between farmers, there is that communality of souls.†  (source)
  • Most of the other girls had stayed in the communal showers for longer, gossiping, but Emily was too spaced out to join them.  (source)
    communal = shared
  • All the girls at Wickshire, it was like they'd been raised communally—the lingo, the clothes, the hair.†  (source)
  • The late money says it's the Indians, who so despise Korean competition, it's the Jews envious of new Korean money, Chinese hateful of Korean communality, blacks who want something, anything of justice, it's the uneasy coalition of our colors, that oldest strife of city and alley and schoolyard.†  (source)
  • To give you one small example, Mrs. van D. has removed all but three of her sheets from our communal linen closet.  (source)
  • A lot of cooking was done communally too, with all the girls gathering to roll dumplings, which were steamed and then dipped in soy sauce mixed with lemon juice and chili oil.†  (source)
  • But the entire situation there, especially in the beginning—the packed sleeping quarters, the communal mess halls, the open toilets—all this was an open insult to that other, private self, a slap in the face you were powerless to challenge.  (source)
  • They lived communally and believed that physical and spiritual deanliness were intimately connected.†  (source)
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