body politic
Example Sentences
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All of this is a horror show for our body politic.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
Those insults are fed intravenously and instantaneously into the body politic due to our interconnectivity.
From Salon ● Feb. 6, 2026
It was the most extreme expression of a wound to the body politic that has been allowed to fester.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025
That’s unhealthy for the body politic — and for voters themselves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2024
Through The Mecca I saw that we were, in our own segregated body politic, cosmopolitans.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
