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
We are affirmed in the knowledge that we are the body politic.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2025
These are the alternative universes of our body politic.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 6, 2024
It is, by design, as detached as possible from the body politic.
From Slate • Jul. 13, 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
