bodiless

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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

It now begins not with its stars at separate vanity tables, contemplating their visages, but with a chorus of smartly dressed women heeding the call of a bodiless voice to beautify themselves.

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2017

The series defines the contours of an ever-growing modern form of intimacy: the bodiless, online romance.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 3, 2015

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

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen