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  • verb Present participle of commingle.
  • noun A mixing or mixture.

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Examples

  • If the idea of commingling bodies with the Earth makes you feel a little squeamish, some of the methods used by conventional cemeteries to keep bodies boxed forever aren't much nicer.

    Terrain Magazine 2008

  • If the idea of commingling bodies with the Earth makes you feel a little squeamish, some of the methods used by conventional cemeteries to keep bodies boxed forever aren't much nicer.

    Terrain Magazine 2008

  • If the idea of commingling bodies with the Earth makes you feel a little squeamish, some of the methods used by conventional cemeteries to keep bodies boxed forever aren't much nicer.

    Terrain Magazine 2008

  • Corker became a Senator by running that heinous ad against Rep. Ford suggesting he was 'commingling' with a blonde white woman.

    Senator's daughter is carjacked 2009

  • We talked to a Councilman in Chicago, Illinois today who stated "Politicians do this because utility fee increases don't carry the negative connotation like taxes do." he continued, "Aside from the politics, this kind of commingling of utility fees and taxes prevents the public from knowing how their money is being spent."

    Election 2009-Lehi, Utah Where is My 4.25 Million Dollars? Robert Paisola Reports for NBC GR 2009

  • District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, alleges that Sentinel Management Group Inc. misused customer segregated funds by "commingling" its assets with its customers 'assets and using as much as $444 million in customer funds to securitize a loan with the Bank of New York.

    Regulator Sues 2008

  • It was the hospital's first experiment with "commingling" a stand-alone, hospital-owned physician building outside the hospital's walls, in effect making it a hospital outpatient setting.

    daytondailynews.com - News 2010

  • Are the book fairs, with their new kind of commingling, sending out a hint - perhaps an unintended one - about the timeliness of such initiatives to their organisers?

    Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • Plessy, the purpose was to prevent "commingling" between the races.

    South Dakota Politics 2009

  • Also called "commingling," single steam recycling means sending all recyclable materials in one container to be sorted mechanically.

    unknown title 2009

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  • It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams.

    --Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

    March 9, 2011