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Recent Examples of disembodied
Even as disembodied typists, the bots can beguile.
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Damon Beres, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2025
That’s why so many are anxious, medicated, or disembodied.
—Big Think, 29 Oct. 2025
For two-thirds of the film, POTUS is a disembodied voice, before being revealed and leading the story’s final chapter.
—Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
That confusion is further reflected by the manic hyper-subjectivity of Bronstein’s filmmaking, which boxes Linda into a close-up so tight that everything around her — especially her unnamed daughter, who almost never appears on screen — might as well be a disembodied echo of her own anxiety.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 10 Oct. 2025
Nearly 11 days later, Di Cesare began hearing a disembodied voice calling out his name from his dorm room.
—Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
Visitors there have reported disembodied voices, footsteps, and flickering lights.
—Cheryl V. Jackson, IndyStar, 2 Oct. 2025
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.
—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
Damon Beres, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2025
That’s why so many are anxious, medicated, or disembodied.
—Big Think, 29 Oct. 2025
For two-thirds of the film, POTUS is a disembodied voice, before being revealed and leading the story’s final chapter.
—Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
That confusion is further reflected by the manic hyper-subjectivity of Bronstein’s filmmaking, which boxes Linda into a close-up so tight that everything around her — especially her unnamed daughter, who almost never appears on screen — might as well be a disembodied echo of her own anxiety.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 10 Oct. 2025
Nearly 11 days later, Di Cesare began hearing a disembodied voice calling out his name from his dorm room.
—Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
Visitors there have reported disembodied voices, footsteps, and flickering lights.
—Cheryl V. Jackson, IndyStar, 2 Oct. 2025
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.
—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
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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This week in Thessaloniki, industry professionals have been circulating leaflets and Visibility Zero campaign buttons, hoping to raise awareness about their struggle by ensuring that the movement is anything but invisible to festival guests.—
Christopher Vourlias,
Variety,
7 Nov. 2025
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The underwater clues that researchers are grasping for in this effort are invisible, almost ephemeral, but hold promise just the same.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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If this group of hardened degenerates was able to enjoy the action at this level, who, exactly, are the spiritual victims of sports betting?—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
7 Nov. 2025
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This could look like spontaneous travel plans, shifting your career focus or even a spiritual awakening.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
7 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Although the cloud sounds like an abstract, formless entity, its physical location matters: Proximity to cloud data centers determines how quickly users can access internet platforms.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
21 Oct. 2025
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But Safdie’s script is at times formless and somewhat baggy.—
Katie Walsh,
Boston Herald,
2 Oct. 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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Excluding certain items, including restructuring charges and costs associated with intangible assets, the company posted earnings per share of 87 cents for the quarter.—
Annika Kim Constantino,
CNBC,
4 Nov. 2025
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Or do other accomplishments, not to mention more intangible things, fill the void?—
Joe Kozlowski,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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How and when, exactly, that divorce occurs is immaterial; there’s no coming back from this, and Penn State and Franklin both need something new.—
Joe Rexrode,
New York Times,
12 Oct. 2025
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Hence, there is no immortal or immaterial soul, no afterlife, all is explained by the movements of matter.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Disembodied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disembodied. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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