body
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Tim Wilkins, the managing director of Intertanko, a trade body representing tanker owners, said the industry was "facing a broadening, deteriorating, and increasingly complex security situation".
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
The body produces arginine naturally, and people also obtain it from many protein-rich foods.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
“The system’s control over my body was absolute,” Young writes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
"We had no choice but to surrender" to our fate, he told reporters at the Bhayangkara Hospital in Surabaya, where he was waiting to retrieve the body of a colleague.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
I feel my whole body tingle with rage, and my hands won’t stop shaking.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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"We know they interact with our bodies in so many ways, and understanding how to create them can help provide totally new routes of testing."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
Nanang told Kompas TV on Monday 229 people had been rescued alive and five bodies were recovered, leaving "mathematically, only two that have yet to be evacuated".
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
Skubal and Snell have undergone surgeries to remove loose bodies from their pitching elbows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
Pakistani officials had previously announced that the bodies of three climbers from the expedition - American Mallory Geis, Nadhira Ahmed Abdullah Al Harthy from Oman and Pur Bahadur Gurung from Nepal - had been recovered.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
The robots worked the fields and machines and livestock, their bodies shining in the sun, shimmering in the heat.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
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But Colón’s instrumental preference changed once he heard the bodied timbre of Mon Rivera’s all-trombone brass lineup marching to a bomba beat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2026
South Korea is still technically at war with North Korea, with all able bodied men between expected to fulfil the country's mandatory conscription requirements.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2023
But there has also been some debate about when regional endothermy evolved, and whether extinct species like the megalodon was warm bodied.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2023
"Since there are no paper filters involved, French press brews a cup which retains all of the coffee's natural oils, resulting in a very full bodied and rich cup."
From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2023
One was tall and big bodied, the other was tall and trim.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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“I thought they really started bodying us on drives, bumping us on drives,” Willard said.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2023
Morgan controlled an overhead ball by bodying defender Clare Polkinghorne.
From Reuters ● Apr. 5, 2019
Finally, Pena jumped into the fray, bodying up post players over a half-foot taller.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2017
There is no other singer I can think of who is better or more practiced at bodying existential duress.
From The New Yorker ● May 5, 2016
His imagination was not a primary power; it was not originative, though in a quite uncommon degree receptive, having the capacity of realizing the imaginations of others, and through them bodying forth the unseen.
From Spare Hours by Brown, John
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