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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
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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
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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
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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
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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