as in person
a member of the human race
I know several bods who work on Fleet Street
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Recent Examples of bod
In a separate Instagram post, his celebrity fitness trainer, Alfonso Moretti, appeared to back up the claim that Cohen got his new bod through old-fashioned diet and exercise.
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Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 24 July 2025
Usher showed off his summer-ready bod wearing blue swim trunks while his wife stunned in a purple bikini.
—Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 26 June 2025
Good form was redefined away from external results—i.e., a hot bod—and toward wellness.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 10 May 2025
Boz, Dorit, Kyle, and Erika (of course) showed as much skin as possible, highlighting all of their banging bods.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2025
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Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 24 July 2025
Usher showed off his summer-ready bod wearing blue swim trunks while his wife stunned in a purple bikini.
—Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 26 June 2025
Good form was redefined away from external results—i.e., a hot bod—and toward wellness.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 10 May 2025
Boz, Dorit, Kyle, and Erika (of course) showed as much skin as possible, highlighting all of their banging bods.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bod
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Earlier that evening, Garden Grove police had been contacted by the Santa Ana Police Department, which was investigating a possible missing-person case after the woman failed to report to work, police said.—
Sydney Barragan,
Oc Register,
9 Jan. 2026
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The occasional person on a walk or shopper at one of the barely dozen stores still open, but the sound inside the mall is mostly just silence.—
Tori Apodaca,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
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Georgia grows tired of her husband and their nightly trips to the fancy French restaurant and decides to have an affair with another man at another table (Alan Howard).—
Diane J. Cho,
PEOPLE,
9 Jan. 2026
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Minutes later, police received a call from a different location from a man who said he’d been shot by federal officers and was requesting help, according to Day and dispatch audio.—
Lex Harvey,
CNN Money,
9 Jan. 2026
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Wouldn’t be surprised if a few cheerleaders and equipment guys are looking to leave, too.—
Mac Engel
January 9,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Jan. 2026
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The guy in the back seat with me was just, like, trying to strike up small talk.—
Susan-Elizabeth Littlefield,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
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Millennials, typically defined as individuals born between the early 1980s and the mid-1990s, are now at a point in their lives where their generational nostalgia is front and center.—
Saba Hamedy,
NBC news,
7 Nov. 2025
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Aldo Olivieri, il Gatto Magico (the Magic Cat), who had survived a fractured skull that required drilling to save his life and left him with chronic headaches, became the first-choice goalkeeper.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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Stokes, who seldom completes a five-Test series these days, had dragged his creaking, aching body through almost five full matches of hard, hot, energy-sapping cricket, like scraping butter over too much bread, but somehow soldiering on.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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The hardware is built for intimacy, pairing a soft exterior with full-body sensors that react to a user’s touch on its head or neck.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Jan. 2026
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David Bowie personally appears on the cover of 24 of his solo albums, depicting himself as a bowl-cut heartthrob, an androgynous blond, a space alien in human disguise, a cigarette-smoking lounge creature, a sideways pair of legs, and an oddly undersized boxer.—
Armin Rosen,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Jan. 2026
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Not to mention the titular bugs, a swarm of blood-invading creatures discovered by her new lover, the mysterious drifter Peter Evans (Namir Smallwood).—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Jan. 2026
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“Bod.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bod. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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