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

That thing was bodiless, blind to sunlight, a creature of a lightless, placeless, timeless realm.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin