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Recent Examples of disembodied
And then there are the various disembodied hands featured in many of the artist’s photographs and sculptures, nearly all of them fetishized in their evident—and sometimes errant—femininity.
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Ara H. Merjian, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
Each time a presenter announced the nominees for a certain category, only the disembodied soundtrack of their TikTok clips would play, with no visuals.
—Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2025
From underneath the braids, disembodied legs and arms peeked out.
—Kayla Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 17 Nov. 2025
Spirits Spirits are disembodied beings who are occasionally called upon to aid specific humans (usually witches), but can sometimes become harmful.
—Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Nov. 2025
The self-laceration is done on Damon Albarn Time, though, as Idles’ usual anxious guitar rave-ups are slowed and stripped here to a skipping, reggae-ish crawl, as synths squeak in the background and Albarn offers support via his forever-distant, disembodied backing vocals.
—Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 7 Nov. 2025
Even as disembodied typists, the bots can beguile.
—Damon Beres, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2025
That’s why so many are anxious, medicated, or disembodied.
—Big Think, 29 Oct. 2025
For two-thirds of the film, POTUS is a disembodied voice, before being revealed and leading the story’s final chapter.
—Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
Ara H. Merjian, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
Each time a presenter announced the nominees for a certain category, only the disembodied soundtrack of their TikTok clips would play, with no visuals.
—Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2025
From underneath the braids, disembodied legs and arms peeked out.
—Kayla Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 17 Nov. 2025
Spirits Spirits are disembodied beings who are occasionally called upon to aid specific humans (usually witches), but can sometimes become harmful.
—Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Nov. 2025
The self-laceration is done on Damon Albarn Time, though, as Idles’ usual anxious guitar rave-ups are slowed and stripped here to a skipping, reggae-ish crawl, as synths squeak in the background and Albarn offers support via his forever-distant, disembodied backing vocals.
—Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 7 Nov. 2025
Even as disembodied typists, the bots can beguile.
—Damon Beres, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2025
That’s why so many are anxious, medicated, or disembodied.
—Big Think, 29 Oct. 2025
For two-thirds of the film, POTUS is a disembodied voice, before being revealed and leading the story’s final chapter.
—Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disembodied
Adjective
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Her testimony led to the U.K.’s first bodiless murder conviction.—
Udita Jhunjhunwala,
Variety,
22 Nov. 2025
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As is always the political case in this city, crime is spoken about in a faceless and bodiless manner, even when the numbers of those who kill and who are killed by gunfire remain high among this group: young, Black and male.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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In fact, magical life has the potential to be even more radically incorporeal than our own.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 June 2025
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Indeed, in stark contrast to the incorporeal nature of a digital image, each of Winant’s photographs is, in a sense, a discrete body: a fallible material entity that boasts a hidden physical history and that will compositionally deteriorate over time.—
Jessica Simmons-Reid,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
Adjective
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In fact, effectively invisible, dark matter can only be inferred due to its interaction with gravity and the effect this has on light and conventional matter.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
5 Jan. 2026
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The best officials are invisible.—
Nick Canepa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Aloka was found by Bhikkhu Pannakara, vice president of the center and spiritual leader of the walk, during a peace walk in India, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported.—
Joe Marusak,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Jan. 2026
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When the music dissolves into an ethereal, ambient soundscape and a psychedelic, spiritual journey, that’s where finding the right amount of energy, aggression, violence, and grief, to support the story and to explain things that the dialog couldn’t, was the most challenging part.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
9 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Following suit, Fanning’s skirt included the same formless shape with an irregular, midi hemline.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
13 Nov. 2025
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Although the cloud sounds like an abstract, formless entity, its physical location matters: Proximity to cloud data centers determines how quickly users can access internet platforms.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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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.—
Trisha Swift,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
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In accounting, intangible assets are nonphysical possessions including such things as brands and intellectual property, software, mineral rights ‒ and contracts.—
Alexander Coolidge,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
Adjective
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Last month, more than six hundred people ate lunch together on trestle tables that snaked through the cobbled streets of Acciaroli, to celebrate fifteen years since Unesco designated the Mediterranean diet part of Italy’s intangible cultural heritage.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
15 Dec. 2025
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And that’s why we are so moved by things that are intangible.—
Anne Thompson,
IndieWire,
12 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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The fact Mahomes got hurt is immaterial to the fact the Chiefs were always bound to fall.—
Andrew Callahan,
Hartford Courant,
5 Jan. 2026
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Those details are immaterial now.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
2 Jan. 2026
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“Disembodied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disembodied. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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