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Recent Examples of disembodied
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.
—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
An American classic, the cover oddly archaic, blue, with disembodied eyes.
—Literary Hub, 8 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
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
An American classic, the cover oddly archaic, blue, with disembodied eyes.
—Literary Hub, 8 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 nearly invisible Thoreau – the compulsively quantitative and analytically rigorous physical scientist – emerged from my research as a geologist interested in the history of 19th-century science.—
Robert M. Thorson,
The Conversation,
8 May 2026
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Small ones, constant ones, invisible ones.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
8 May 2026
Adjective
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This activity included combating Falun Gong, a spiritual practice banned in China, and supporters of Taiwanese independence.—
Times staff,
Los Angeles Times,
12 May 2026
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Getting married in New York City’s Riverside Church was a deeply spiritual and foundational event for both of us.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 May 2026
Adjective
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Slowing and congealing the formless language of my thoughts.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Mar. 2026
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Some of Hachette’s attempts at tweaking have not been taken onboard: There was some discussion of the magazine’s name (not surprising, since industry wisdom suggests that the big, useful magazine agencies like Publishers Clearinghouse will be turned off by something as formless as George).—
Rebecca Mead,
Vulture,
21 Feb. 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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Your films always seem to involve people having a physical relationship with things that are intangible.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
12 May 2026
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These expenses result from the amortization of intangible assets acquired by Berkshire.—
Bill Stone,
Forbes.com,
10 May 2026
Adjective
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Whether his methods were properly conducted science is immaterial.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 May 2026
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This is likely to become an increasingly immaterial factor as the company's sales mix shifts .—
Zev Fima,
CNBC,
12 May 2026
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“Disembodied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disembodied. Accessed 14 May. 2026.
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