body politic
Example Sentences
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It is like a virus in the body politic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
All of this is a horror show for our body politic.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
“If we possess anything important in our citizenship, it’s the ability to vote and to participate in the body politic of our localities in our nation,” Lacy said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2024
After the war ended, it resumed and became ever stronger in the Confederate portion of the body politic.
From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2024
I maintain that one reaches this princedom either with the favour of the common people or with that of the nobility, since these two different humours are found in every body politic.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
