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corporeal

[kawr-pawr-ee-uhl, -pohr-] / kɔrˈpɔr i əl, -ˈpoʊr- /


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These, however, also feel funereal, like death masks taken after a long-suffering friend has been freed finally from corporeal struggles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

Before that, Serra could most often be found mining France’s centuries past for mordant tableau vivants of corporeal concern, most notably in his protracted bedchamber drama “The Death of Louis XIV.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2025

These patrons continue to misunderstand the corporeal appeal of someone like Joe Rogan, an allure that can’t be articulated within the bloodless context of a boardroom meeting.

From Slate • May 21, 2025

Chris Peppé told the BBC that in all the monasteries he had visited "no Buddhists regard these as corporeal relics".

From BBC • May 3, 2025

Locke doubted whether our sensory capacities were sufficient to allow us to develop an adequate knowledge of corporeal substances.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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