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incorporeal

[in-kawr-pawr-ee-uhl, -pohr-] / ˌɪn kɔrˈpɔr i əl, -ˈpoʊr- /
ADJECTIVE
insubstantial
Synonyms


ADJECTIVE
divine
Synonyms


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Those $200 in chips made the questions of financial responsibility that loomed over me in every other avenue of my life gloriously incorporeal.

From Slate • Nov. 18, 2025

“It would mean that any criticism of the central government can be described as a terrorist act because the honor of India is its incorporeal property,” the court said in its bail order.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 24, 2023

One of the boys, Youssef, has a shapeshifting double named Brother who is “more than incorporeal but less than living” and follows along as each member of the family determines his place in the world.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2022

Their physical bodies — and your own — get entangled with those pictorial references to bodily experience, bringing a ghostly, incorporeal picture home.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2022

Invisible, incorporeal, insubstantial as a murmur, Sarai slipped into their dreams, and what she discovered there, in the hours that followed, proved that the strangers were far from ridiculous.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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