disembodied

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Recent Examples of disembodied But all that data ingestion has mostly enhanced disembodied AI. Michael Ashley, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026 In what should be a surprise to no one, the toddler who learned to hold completely still for regular, two-hour MRIs grew up to be a rather disembodied woman who lives almost exclusively in her brain. Rebekah Taussig, Time, 7 July 2026 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. 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. 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disembodied
Adjective
  • The important things are often bodiless.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026
  • 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
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • In his work, Hujar returned again and again to the spiritual life of his sitters—an invisible presence in his images.
    Hilton Als, New Yorker, 17 July 2026
  • His arms are outstretched and his shirt, worn like a jacket over a T-shirt, billows behind him as if blown by an invisible wind.
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 17 July 2026
Adjective
  • In his work, Hujar returned again and again to the spiritual life of his sitters—an invisible presence in his images.
    Hilton Als, New Yorker, 17 July 2026
  • The principal of my Christian high school regularly attributed world happenings—terrorist attacks, presidents elected or not elected, the price of gas—to unseen spiritual warfare.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 July 2026
Adjective
  • 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
  • Slowing and congealing the formless language of my thoughts.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • Intellectual property assets – like patents, trademarks and other types of intangible property – have been appreciating at a much faster pace than physical investments in recent years.
    Tobias Burns, CNBC, 13 July 2026
  • Then Bastian added that the games may have had an intangible benefit.
    Ted Reed, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026
Adjective
  • The money, in Gupta’s view, is immaterial.
    April Long, Allure, 24 June 2026
  • The fact that it was conceived without thought and for decades was produced and consumed without thought is immaterial.
    Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 20 June 2026

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“Disembodied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disembodied. Accessed 20 Jul. 2026.

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