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Recent Examples of disembodied
The six-minute quasi-title track works as a centerpiece, its compressed qanun (a stringed Middle Eastern instrument, played here by the acclaimed Syrian musician Maya Youssef) looping in the background as electronic pulses, foreboding pianos, and disembodied voices swirl around the mix.
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Alex Robert Ross,
Pitchfork,
15 June 2026
As is Takal, clearly having fun with the film’s queasy, lurching atmospherics, abetted by the sparse, shivery, atonal chimes of Jonathan Goldsmith’s score, and the floating, disembodied feel of Robert Leitzell’s camerawork.
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Guy Lodge,
Variety,
13 June 2026
In both Wilde’s play and Strauss’s opera, Salome is obsessed with Jokanaan (John the Baptist), who is being held as a political prisoner in a cistern, his disembodied voice floating around the stage.
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Literary Hub,
20 May 2026
Adults would look around, trying to spy the location of the body behind the disembodied voice.
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Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 May 2026
The first takes the shape of a group of disembodied eyes looking out on the Lagoon, the other a strange, towering black body.
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Brian Boucher,
ARTnews.com,
7 May 2026
Around his head hovers a cluster of disembodied faces — creepy alt-Altmans, their expressions ranging from anger to open-mouthed woe.
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Cath Virginia,
The Verge,
11 Apr. 2026
The ceremonial first pitch was delivered by Thing, the disembodied hand character from Netflix’s popular series Wednesday.
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Ryan Brennan,
Kansas City Star,
26 Mar. 2026
And that’s how the disembodied eyeball of one Heather Graham became the runaway star of SXSW.
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Jada Yuan,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2026
Alex Robert Ross,
Pitchfork,
15 June 2026
As is Takal, clearly having fun with the film’s queasy, lurching atmospherics, abetted by the sparse, shivery, atonal chimes of Jonathan Goldsmith’s score, and the floating, disembodied feel of Robert Leitzell’s camerawork.
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Guy Lodge,
Variety,
13 June 2026
In both Wilde’s play and Strauss’s opera, Salome is obsessed with Jokanaan (John the Baptist), who is being held as a political prisoner in a cistern, his disembodied voice floating around the stage.
—
Literary Hub,
20 May 2026
Adults would look around, trying to spy the location of the body behind the disembodied voice.
—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 May 2026
The first takes the shape of a group of disembodied eyes looking out on the Lagoon, the other a strange, towering black body.
—
Brian Boucher,
ARTnews.com,
7 May 2026
Around his head hovers a cluster of disembodied faces — creepy alt-Altmans, their expressions ranging from anger to open-mouthed woe.
—
Cath Virginia,
The Verge,
11 Apr. 2026
The ceremonial first pitch was delivered by Thing, the disembodied hand character from Netflix’s popular series Wednesday.
—
Ryan Brennan,
Kansas City Star,
26 Mar. 2026
And that’s how the disembodied eyeball of one Heather Graham became the runaway star of SXSW.
—
Jada Yuan,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disembodied
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The important things are often bodiless.
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Her testimony led to the U.K.’s first bodiless murder conviction.
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Followers of the Abrahamic religions are supposed to treat God as immaterial and incorporeal, yet these early Yahweh worshippers imagined him as fully embodied.
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Positioned as a large-scale genre event, the series updates the legendary SFX property with a contemporary political and social edge, with Shun Oguri leading the cast as a detective hunting a seemingly incorporeal killer.
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But the things that actually blow up a deal are invisible.
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Man, to see that Curaçao player — in a moment that’s quite important to him, that is earned over so many years of effort — give a slight nod to the invisible man, that warms my heart and brings a smile to my face.
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The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Tuesday that practitioners of the Falun Gong spiritual movement cannot sue tech giant Cisco over allegations of aiding the Chinese government’s surveillance and torture of the group.
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The 1970s were thick with New Age spiritual fads and movements, from the benign (crystals) to the unspeakably toxic and cultic (Jonestown).
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In contrast to the article’s portrait of a formless contest, recent polling portrays a race that is becoming more structured.
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These new formations are much more likely to occur than for things to turn into a formless goop.
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In Ayurveda, Prana, the life force carried by the breath, is understood to nourish both the mind and body and can be viewed as a nonphysical substance, finer than oxygen.
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In accounting, intangible assets are nonphysical possessions including such things as brands and intellectual property, software, mineral rights ‒ and contracts.
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Keep his minutes in check, stick him in front of the net on the power play, and there’s reason to think Perry can still deliver some tangible impact along with those intangible qualities.
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Knobel says there's also an intangible loss.
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The fact that it was conceived without thought and for decades was produced and consumed without thought is immaterial.
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Yum no longer shares the same-store sales of the chain’s domestic business, implying that the segment is now considered immaterial to the company’s broader results.
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“Disembodied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disembodied. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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