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bodiless

[bod-ee-lis, -i-lis] / ˈbɒd i lɪs, -ɪ lɪs /


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“Just imagine the conversations one might have with a bodiless priest.”

From New York Times Aug. 7, 2019

He sounds less like a human than like a sacred scroll, speaking in placid phrases of bodiless, archetypal preachment: “I would advise you kindly, Suleyman, against this course of action.”

From The New Yorker Oct. 8, 2018

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

Its fur, as it rushed past him, would have felt exactly like a bodiless Something touching him.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw




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