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Recent Examples of bodily Payton is charged in Hennepin County District Court with two counts of fleeing a police officer resulting in death and one count of fleeing a police officer resulting in great bodily harm. Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 5 Sep. 2025 When exercising in warm conditions, your body has to put in extra effort to keep cool, triggering a cascade of bodily stressors, Rachael Nelson, an exercise physiologist at Central Michigan University, tells Popular Science. Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 4 Sep. 2025 Jaden Brown-Smith faces two counts of driving without a driver's license, one for causing death and another for causing great bodily harm, in the collision that killed 45-year-old Victor Ramos. David Clarey, jsonline.com, 3 Sep. 2025 Nathalie Rose Jones was charged with threatening to take the life of, kidnap, or inflict bodily harm upon the president of the United States and transmitting in interstate commerce communications. Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 2 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bodily
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bodily
physical
Adjective
  • The iPhone 17 is set to be the fourth gen of Apple smartphones without a physical SIM card slot in the US.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Even today, thousands of its physical records are stored in former limestone mines in Missouri and Pennsylvania.
    Eli Hager, ProPublica, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Bodily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bodily. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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