disembodied

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Recent Examples of disembodied As Wired reported, glitches can happen when workers move too quickly, including disembodied hands obscuring pages. Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2026 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
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
  • Exercises involving public safety partners, facility operators, legal advisors, executive leadership and technical personnel often reveal procedural gaps that remain invisible during routine operations.
    Bill Edwards, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The sector has spent decades treating this capital as either invisible or suspicious.
    Alaa Murabit, STAT, 20 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • This unfettered access — which can be challenging to find among human gurus — is what’s drawing more people to AI for spiritual guidance.
    ABC News, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The now-familiar blend of folk, soul, and psychedelia dominates the album aesthetically, though James took spiritual cues from recordings of meditative organ performances by Alice Coltrane.
    Ryan Leas, Pitchfork, 28 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Musicians have long sought to give form to the formless, unconstrained yet palatable, inspirational and divine.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2026
  • Without training in how to respond to it, a threat can feel not just frightening but formless, something to be endured rather than navigated.
    Andrei Popoviciu, The Dial, 21 July 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
  • In fact, experts have opined that these benefits are not just intangible impacts, but have real effects on the workforce.
    Dr. Sai Balasubramanian, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Beyond the intangible value of his mere presence, Picollo pointed to the practical aspects.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 21 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • But that doesn’t mean what happens along the way is immaterial.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 25 Aug. 2026
  • So, when companies that used to routinely print tens of billions in annual free cash flow start putting up immaterial sums — or even outflows — investors understandably start to be concerned.
    Zev Fima, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2026

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“Disembodied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disembodied. Accessed 30 Aug. 2026.

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