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Recent Examples of bodiless That the bodiless voice of Captain Kafetzis was now coming to me live from above my proprietary Cashmere mattress indicated the obvious seriousness of what had happened in the night. Lauren Oyler, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bodiless
Adjective
  • For deeper spiritual guidance, Tarot and Angel Card Readings offer encouragement and clarity about the past, present, and future.
    Kate Donnelly, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
  • For less-religious students, some of their first conversations about spiritual matters may be with chaplains.
    Cornelia Powers, The Atlantic, 18 May 2025
Adjective
  • If reason teaches that God is incorporeal, this means that God has no body; God does not physically see, nor do people see God.
    Randy L. Friedman, The Conversation, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The digital files are incorporeal.
    BostonGlobe.com, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2021
Adjective
  • Her interest in mysteries and the occult began in the metaphysical section at her local Borders.
    Roya Backlund, StyleCaster, 16 May 2025
  • In my adolescence, the fight turned emotional and metaphysical, mirroring the peaks and valleys of hormonal mood shifts.
    Carla Sosenko, Vogue, 8 May 2025
Adjective
  • Turn your LinkedIn presence from invisible to influential.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
  • Baca, who has been leading these workshops since 2011, recalled a moment from one: Everett Cox, a Vietnam War veteran who had kept away from everything military for decades, responded to a prompt of action verbs by expertly stabbing and slashing with an invisible bayonet.
    Dina Litovsky, New York Times, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • This supernatural short takes place in London in 1757 where a visionary writer locked in an insane asylum is targeted by the Devil to compose a specific poem that will allow him to lord over the Earth and its inhabitants.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 17 May 2025
  • Ghosting, a supernatural thriller written by Brian DeCubellis and K.S. Bruce and to be directed by Brian DeCubellis, which is now casting; and The Confidence Men, based on the book by Margalit Fox, whose screenplay was adapted by Jez Scharf (Bodkin), and which is currently targeting a director.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 17 May 2025
Adjective
  • With intentionally provocative lyrics, the song takes profane aim at the hypocrisy of anti-LGBTQ+ Christian conservatives, who refuse to respect trans people’s personhood all while applying gender individualism to an ostensibly formless, all-encompassing God.
    Abby Monteil, Them, 24 Mar. 2025
  • What do these formless smudges on the page mean?
    Jack Lang, The Athletic, 9 Feb. 2025

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“Bodiless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bodiless. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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