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
That’s unhealthy for the body politic — and for voters themselves.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2024
After the war ended, it resumed and became ever stronger in the Confederate portion of the body politic.
From Salon • Mar. 23, 2024
And it has survived to some degree for more than 150 years, tucked into the cracks of our body politic.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 21, 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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
