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
For example, the Vietnam War wound down and no longer was this gaping wound on the body politic.
From Slate • Sep. 12, 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 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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
