body politic
noun
1
: a group of persons politically organized under a single governmental authority
2
archaic
: corporation sense 2
3
: a people considered as a collective unit
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With the media’s normalization of white nationalism, recent years have made clear that there is a new urgency to assess the role that artists, through works of art, have played to illuminate the searing contours of the American body politic.
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Simon Njami, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
Jen Soriano tenderly, unflinchingly excavates layers of history and pain—found both in her body and our body politic—and offers all of us tools and materials to build a path toward wholeness.
—Gabrielle Bellot, Literary Hub, 1 Aug. 2025
A little ahead of schedule, today’s announcement may send some shockwaves through the West Coast body politic as all indications were that the former Veep was staffed up and ready to roll up to Sacramento.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 30 July 2025
This very public dust-up can be seen as another notch in the deteriorating state of the U.S. body politic.
—Dan Perry, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 June 2025
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Simon Njami, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
Jen Soriano tenderly, unflinchingly excavates layers of history and pain—found both in her body and our body politic—and offers all of us tools and materials to build a path toward wholeness.
—Gabrielle Bellot, Literary Hub, 1 Aug. 2025
A little ahead of schedule, today’s announcement may send some shockwaves through the West Coast body politic as all indications were that the former Veep was staffed up and ready to roll up to Sacramento.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 30 July 2025
This very public dust-up can be seen as another notch in the deteriorating state of the U.S. body politic.
—Dan Perry, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for body politic
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“Body politic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/body%20politic. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.
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