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Recent Examples of disembodied
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.
—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
Rocky is not a visual effect or a disembodied voice.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 21 Apr. 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
Or perhaps he is known less by image and more as a disembodied voice, glitching his way across vintage Kanye tracks and rumbling words of self-pity opposite Taylor Swift.
—Mitch Therieau, Pitchfork, 8 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
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
Rocky is not a visual effect or a disembodied voice.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 21 Apr. 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
Or perhaps he is known less by image and more as a disembodied voice, glitching his way across vintage Kanye tracks and rumbling words of self-pity opposite Taylor Swift.
—Mitch Therieau, Pitchfork, 8 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
Adjective
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The important things are often bodiless.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Mar. 2026
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Her testimony led to the U.K.’s first bodiless murder conviction.—
Udita Jhunjhunwala,
Variety,
22 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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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.—
Manvir Singh,
New Yorker,
9 Mar. 2026
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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.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The line’s exact location has been ambiguous and sometimes invisible.—
Sam Mednick,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2026
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Budgets are decided by Congress, leases by agencies, and major decisions are usually shaped by factors invisible from the outside.—
Ingmar Rentzhog,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2026
Adjective
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The twice-weekly two-hour temazcal experience, led by a local Mayan shaman, guides participants through an ancestral purification ritual focused on physical and spiritual detoxification.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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Ben Tzur understands the spiritual kernel of this process, having studied under Ustad Zia Fariduddin Dagar in the ancient dhrupad tradition, where rhythmic Vedic chants achieve a similar effect.—
Arman Khan,
Pitchfork,
1 June 2026
Adjective
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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.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
17 May 2026
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These new formations are much more likely to occur than for things to turn into a formless goop.—
Thomas Coughlin,
Forbes.com,
11 May 2026
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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The February air was motionless, intangible.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 May 2026
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As Rauh points out, the measure includes a constitutional authorization to lift California’s cap on taxation of intangible personal property.—
Veronique De Rugy,
Oc Register,
28 May 2026
Adjective
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The challenge was to create something that feels almost immaterial, while still making a real shoe.—
Miles Socha,
Footwear News,
26 May 2026
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Portofiro and the baroque universe surrounding it—communists on-world, techno-fascists offplanet, and all manner of augmentoids and spooks in the immaterial planes between—can make for a dizzying read.—
Alex James Kane,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
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“Disembodied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disembodied. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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