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bodiless

[bod-ee-lis, -i-lis] / ˈbɒd i lɪs, -ɪ lɪs /


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“It is very difficult to talk in Afrikaans …,” begins the bodiless voice.

From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2023

He sounds less like a human than like a sacred scroll, speaking in placid phrases of bodiless, archetypal preachment: “I would advise you kindly, Suleyman, against this course of action.”

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 8, 2018

There’s plenty of hypothetical innovation, too: ramjet fusion machines, antimatter engines and “laser porting” of human connectomes to enable bodiless exploration of the cosmos.

From Nature ● Feb. 6, 2018

Quickly, the case of the bodiless woman, whom they now call Jane Doe, went cold.

From Reuters ● Nov. 2, 2017

At home, he was alarmed, picking it up, at how light it seemed — bodiless.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen


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