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[bod-ee] / ˈbɒd i /








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The coroner’s office has Denton’s body and plans to perform a full autopsy, said Sgt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

Wall Street’s self regulatory body on Thursday said it imposed the penalty after finding deficiencies with how Webull verified customers’ identities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Cornell's Board of Trustees, which is the college's top governing body, on Friday voiced support for university President Laurence Kotlikoff.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

He described her reaction to seeing him as being "like her soul had left her body".

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

I crouched down and admired the marvelous design of legs and body.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

The second consumed three daily servings of dairy while maintaining an energy-neutral diet, meaning their calorie intake was intended to match the energy their bodies used.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026

This was reiterated in the Vatican’s 2016 instruction “Ad resurgendum cum Christo”: “The Church continues to prefer the practice of burying the bodies of the deceased, because this shows a greater esteem towards the deceased.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

What are we supposed to do when our bodies fail and we can no longer work, our Social Security checks aren’t enough and we have nowhere to turn?

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

"Where public bodies have estimated the longer-term cost, some described it as unaffordable."

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

The astronauts’ bodies stabilized after a few days back on Earth.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

Their ancient relatives were likely similar in being soft bodied marine organisms.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 27, 2026

But Colón’s instrumental preference changed once he heard the bodied timbre of Mon Rivera’s all-trombone brass lineup marching to a bomba beat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2026

Scott McTominay was striding away, before being bodied by former Manchester United pal Paddy McNair.

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2024

"Since there are no paper filters involved, French press brews a cup which retains all of the coffee's natural oils, resulting in a very full bodied and rich cup."

From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2023

Friday afternoon, and from right here I could see three miles of land that hadn't even been broken, and every able bodied man in the county in town at that show.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

“I thought they really started bodying us on drives, bumping us on drives,” Willard said.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2023

Morgan controlled an overhead ball by bodying defender Clare Polkinghorne.

From Reuters ● Apr. 5, 2019

Notice the toughnesss--not just Iguodala and Green, but Barnes, Livingston, even Curry bodying up on Lebron?

From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2016

There is no other singer I can think of who is better or more practiced at bodying existential duress.

From The New Yorker ● May 5, 2016

The imagination of the public, fired by its realization of this fact, stretched itself ahead of the distant beaters, bodying forth what they might find.

From The Sign at Six by Stewart Edward White


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