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commute
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commute as in:  commute from New Jersey

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    The study shows that the time needed for average commute has increased again.
    commute = regular travel between home and work
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    Valentine, it costs more money than your father will make in his lifetime for me to fly to Earth and back to the Battle School again. I don't commute casually.  (source)
    commute = travel back and forth
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    At the time he wrote these words, he was holding down a full-time job, flipping Quarter Pounders at a McDonald's on the main drag, commuting to work on a bicycle.  (source)
    commuting = travelling
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    You can commute to Penn; you know how easy it is.  (source)
    commute = regularly travel back and forth
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    Shen lived in a luxury housing development reachable by one of the newer commuter rails.†  (source)
    commuter = math:  the order in which two numbers are added or multiplied does not change their sum or product (2+3=3+2) and (4×7=7×4)
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    The announcer got a lot of mileage out of the story, going on about the rubes with their clunker of a vehicle and yapping dog who were making thousands of New York commuters late for work.  (source)
    commuters = people traveling between home and work
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    They were just commuting to work.  (source)
    commuting = traveling a regular route
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    Jackie and the children are there all the time, while the president commutes from Washington on weekends.†  (source)
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    Matt commuted there on Friday and came back on Sunday to go back to work on Monday.  (source)
    commuted = traveled a regular route
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    My commutation ticket came back to me with a dark stain from his hand.  (source)
    commutation = from the trip
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    And the commute was quite easy now that the Labyrinth is back in service.  (source)
    commute = regular journey
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    The commuter shuttles ran only a few times a day, so the residents lucky enough to have a job would already be waiting at the bus stop by the highway.†  (source)
    commuter = math:  the order in which two numbers are added or multiplied does not change their sum or product (2+3=3+2) and (4×7=7×4)
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    The soldiers, airmen, Marines, sailors, Coast Guardsmen, cadets, and everyone else in front of me began to shuffle their feet toward the door; it reminded me of commuters leaving a packed subway car, an odd resonance as I approached the open door two thousand feet in the air.  (source)
    commuters = people traveling between home and work
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commute as in:  commute the sentence

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    The Justice Department strongly opposed the petition, but the President commuted the 12-year sentence--cutting it in half.
    commuted = exchanged a penalty for one that is less severe
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    Some death sentences were later commuted; 920 men were eventually executed.  (source)
    commuted = reduced
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    "He'll go to the chair," said Atticus, "unless the Governor commutes his sentence."  (source)
    commutes = exchanges a punishment for a less severe punishment
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    The problem was so significant in Illinois that in 2003, Governor George Ryan, a Republican, citing the unreliability of capital punishment, commuted the death sentences of all 167 people on death row.  (source)
    commuted = reduced
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    Until the very last, he hoped for a commutation, since Grace had been given one.  (source)
    commutation = exchange of a penalty for one that is less severe
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    And I'm sorry they didn't see fit to commute your sentence.  (source)
    commute = exchange a penalty for one that is less severe
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    Colonel Aureliano Buendia, in spite of the violent recriminations of Ursula, refused to commute the sentence.†  (source)
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    He was initially sentenced to life imprisonment, but his sentence was commuted to twenty years in 1973, of which he served only ten.  (source)
    sentence was commuted = exchanged for one that was less severe
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    Such a lady gave a neighborliness to both rank and religion, and mitigated the bitterness of uncommuted tithe.†  (source)
    uncommuted = unreduced
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    Our five-year sentence had been commuted to house arrest.  (source)
    commuted = exchanged (of a penalty for one that is less severe)
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    Stopping to buy a new commutation ticket at the Pneumatique, he passed the time with an Esper 3, on duty at the Information Desk, who passed Fred the word about Barbara D'Courtney.†  (source)
    commutation = exchanged a penalty for one that is less severe
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    He wanted the governor to commute my sentence to life, but that's just another death sentence.  (source)
    commute = exchange for one that is less severe
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    But the doctor, a Captain Ono, asked the commanding officer if he would commute the sentence and give the man over to him, for purposes of instruction.†  (source)
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