body politic
Example Sentences
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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
What hope of freedom was there unless Black Americans were accepted as full members of the body politic?
From Slate • Oct. 7, 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
And if the fish happens to be so contaminated it will poison the body politic, you’ll take the chicken.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 30, 2023
The body politic was so disordered that all government seemed suspended.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
