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[bod-ee] / ˈbɒd i /








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Nokwanda is speaking to the BBC from the family home near South Africa's main city, Johannesburg, just two days after relatives identified Dineo's body.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

Joanna Wietrzyk, a 24-year-old Melborne resident, could be seen with what appears to be fecal matter on parts of her body as she competed in a Hyrox event Saturday in Beijing, China.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 2026

But it’s not just the time necessary for executing—it’s the mental load of considering so many little details, just for the keeping of your own body.

From Slate Sep. 18, 2026

Increasingly, it became easier to say with conviction that there was no split between the body and the mind—but that the body, more specifically the brain, was the mind.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

A furious heat rises in me, from my gut to the tips of my fingers, and my body clenches at his audacity, at the lies, at the lengths he’s willing to go to punish me.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

In Kempton Park, a district of Ekurhuleni where five of the nine recent bodies were found, Lumka Maqhubela is part of the Girl2Woman Foundation group which has held protests to raise awareness of the crimes.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

You can kick that unanswerable question around while watching “Joffrey Ballet: The Next Movement,” which communicates the joy of bodies in motion in a way that might leave you feeling younger.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

Her disappearance drew public attention after fellow runners launched a social media campaign to find her, bringing renewed focus to earlier cases and, later, to the discovery of more bodies.

From Barron's Sep. 17, 2026

Their bodies were found close together in the mud flow.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 17, 2026

Giant bodies breached the surface and then dipped beneath the waves.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

He bodied Walker at one stage, put him on the ground.

From BBC Nov. 4, 2024

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

As the third period ticked down, Kraken goaltender Grubauer bodied down a point-blank chance from Andrew Mangiapane to help Seattle kill off another penalty.

From Seattle Times Dec. 28, 2022

One was tall and big bodied, the other was tall and trim.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

“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

Notice the toughnesss--not just Iguodala and Green, but Barnes, Livingston, even Curry bodying up on Lebron?

From New York Times Jun. 3, 2016

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

And even if sculptors had been encouraged to do their best in bodying forth the forms of gods, they would hardly have achieved high success.

From A History of Greek Art by Frank Bigelow Tarbell




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