as a body
Example Sentences
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The widening conflict came as a body of conservative clerics in Iran was weighing who will replace the nation’s slain supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026
Whatever they were, the grand jury in D.C. didn’t just reject them as a body.
From Slate • Feb. 14, 2026
And yet, Congress’ path to irrelevance as a body of government did not begin during the shutdown, or even in January 2025.
From Salon • Nov. 1, 2025
County politics for a decade, including serving as a body man for Antonio Villaraigosa during his failed gubernatorial campaign, Flores moved to Huntington Park in 2018.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2025
Hampden College, as a body, was always strangely prone to hysteria.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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