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Recent Examples of disembodied
Customers and staff would work together, spending hours over sometimes multiple days to create set pieces of skeletons and mummies, giant spiders, disembodied hands and faces emerging from the walls.
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Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 23 Sep. 2025
Compared to the intro to Borderlands 3, with its never-ending stream of disembodied limbs, gore, and poop gags, the intro to Borderlands 2 feels restrained.
—G Kirilloff, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
In the spot, disembodied voice (courtesy of Italian actor Riccardo Scamarcio) cheekily instructs Pitt on how to make and enjoy his coffee from a Delonghi machine.
—Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
Gomez and Morticia buried him, but kept his disembodied hand, which eventually became Thing (Victor Dorobantu).
—Selome Hailu, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
There are few actors whose disembodied voices could carry long stretches of cinema, but Dafoe manages it, turning monologues about marionette mechanics or muttered complaints about hotel politics into something weirdly magnetic.
—Leila Latif, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2025
Stamp’s Jor-El only appeared as a disembodied voice.
—Victoria Edel, People.com, 17 Aug. 2025
Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 23 Sep. 2025
Compared to the intro to Borderlands 3, with its never-ending stream of disembodied limbs, gore, and poop gags, the intro to Borderlands 2 feels restrained.
—G Kirilloff, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
In the spot, disembodied voice (courtesy of Italian actor Riccardo Scamarcio) cheekily instructs Pitt on how to make and enjoy his coffee from a Delonghi machine.
—Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
Gomez and Morticia buried him, but kept his disembodied hand, which eventually became Thing (Victor Dorobantu).
—Selome Hailu, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
There are few actors whose disembodied voices could carry long stretches of cinema, but Dafoe manages it, turning monologues about marionette mechanics or muttered complaints about hotel politics into something weirdly magnetic.
—Leila Latif, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2025
Stamp’s Jor-El only appeared as a disembodied voice.
—Victoria Edel, People.com, 17 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disembodied
Adjective
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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
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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
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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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Jiang and his colleagues complain over video chat about their bland meals, but the people who produce, prepare and deliver the food remain invisible.—
Yangyang Cheng,
NPR,
4 Oct. 2025
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And yet, the rings were still all but invisible because while the south side of the rings was tipped toward us, the sun was illuminating the north side.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Driven by Jonny Greenwood’s relentless score, the movie summons not only the images but the psycho-spiritual sensations of a country tearing itself apart.—
Graham Hillard,
The Washington Examiner,
3 Oct. 2025
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Sarah Mullally will become the spiritual leader of the Anglican Church in January, a year after her predecessor resigned in a safeguarding scandal.—
Tom Chivers,
semafor.com,
3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Just ask Happy Gilmore 2, a formless, two-hour blob of Adam Sandler’s family and celebrity friends, with no real creative drive to speak of.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Aug. 2025
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With its eerily formless threat, catchy theme song, wholesome teen heroes, and ingeniously practical ooze effects (a dazzling mix of in-camera and optical printing), The Blob straddles atomic-era paranoia and gooey creature-feature fun.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
29 July 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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That outcome could delay or reduce any recovery, allow Jones to keep control of the platform that spread the false claims at issue, and expose limits in how bankruptcy law can deliver accountability when a business’s value is intangible and closely tied to its founder.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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The Indianapolis Colts have captured something intangible.—
Adam Grosbard,
Oc Register,
28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The difference between stoking a civil war and pretending to stoke one is ultimately immaterial.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
12 Sep. 2025
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Between them, Sinner and Alcaraz have dispatched their only serious rival in three straight majors, largely making every other match at these tournaments feel almost immaterial.—
Charlie Eccleshare,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Disembodied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disembodied. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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