community
noun
a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage.
communities
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pluralof community.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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But it has faced considerable opposition in certain communities, with groups representing hundreds of landowners taking the company to court in 2025.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
Lopez is part of a shift rippling through Latino communities across the country.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
In a long career before his death in August, at the age of 92, the agrarian writer Wendell Berry argued that modern agriculture was decimating family farms, hollowing out rural communities and poisoning the planet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
The scapegoating wasn’t just happening on the right: A former L.A. resident who is Iranian-American and a Democrat told Salon that during the 2025 fires, friends reposted claims blaming Native communities for water shortages.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
Racial minorities were always overrepresented in the criminal justice system, but as sociologists have noted, until the mid-1980s, the system was marginal to communities of color.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
