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[bod-ee] / ˈbɒd i /








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DC Studio’s body horror “Clayface” topped the box office, with a haul of $24 million.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

About half of the student body at Da Vinci Communications, the public charter school where Jackson still teaches, is economically disadvantaged, according to U.S.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

The Canadian case "could really contribute to that developing body of law," she said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

In summer 2025, Dulkay led a team exhuming the body in search of the killer’s bullet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

He kept Magellan’s body as a war trophy.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

However Benner underlined that the investment in Georgia has not yet been signed off by all the relevant bodies within the Volkswagen group.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

Instead, they generate spores within tiny sac-like structures found inside or on the surfaces of their fruiting bodies.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

When asked what percentage recovery rate would be considered a success, the bodies said they would measure success via various metrics including shoreline surveys.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

IG Metall's Benner stressed that the investment in Georgia has not yet been signed off by all the relevant bodies within the Volkswagen Group.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

Then they faced the door with their feet still on the mat and did something called downward dog, making a triangle with their bodies with their butts as the top point.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

South Korea is still technically at war with North Korea, with all able bodied men between expected to fulfil the country's mandatory conscription requirements.

From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2023

But there has also been some debate about when regional endothermy evolved, and whether extinct species like the megalodon was warm bodied.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2023

"Since there are no paper filters involved, French press brews a cup which retains all of the coffee's natural oils, resulting in a very full bodied and rich cup."

From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2023

As the third period ticked down, Kraken goaltender Grubauer bodied down a point-blank chance from Andrew Mangiapane to help Seattle kill off another penalty.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2022

Friday afternoon, and from right here I could see three miles of land that hadn't even been broken, and every able bodied man in the county in town at that show.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

“I thought they really started bodying us on drives, bumping us on drives,” Willard said.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2023

Morgan controlled an overhead ball by bodying defender Clare Polkinghorne.

From Reuters ● Apr. 5, 2019

Finally, Pena jumped into the fray, bodying up post players over a half-foot taller.

From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2017

There is no other singer I can think of who is better or more practiced at bodying existential duress.

From The New Yorker ● May 5, 2016

The New Testament is the literature of the movement which grew out of Israel, the literature of the Universal Church bodying around the Son of Man, in whom religion came to perfect flower and fruit.

From The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible by R. Heber Newton


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