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
What inspired you to retell “Cinderella” as a body horror comedy?
From Salon • Apr. 18, 2025
On the undercard, Padraig McCrory suffered an eighth-round loss to Craig Richards as a body shot from the Londoner closed the show.
From BBC • Mar. 1, 2025
Hampden College, as a body, was always strangely prone to hysteria.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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