body politic

Example Sentences

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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

“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

These are the alternative universes of our body politic.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 6, 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