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Recent Examples of disembodied
His muscles waste, his mind dulls, his body collapses inward until only a voice remains, thin and disembodied.
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Gilberto Lopes, STAT, 12 Feb. 2026
Fischbach's protagonist is surrounded by disembodied voices in the clip, his only company until the red waters begin flooding the vessel.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Feb. 2026
Behind him, the disembodied hand of a federal agent grips his Spider-Man backpack.
—Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2026
The script leans heavily on exposition — internal monologues, disembodied intercom voices, and hallucinatory flashbacks — to communicate lore that might have resonated more powerfully through action or environment.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 29 Jan. 2026
Ahead of me, five more disembodied beams skittered across the snow, each emitting from the skiers ahead of me.
—Tim Neville, Travel + Leisure, 27 Jan. 2026
In the late 18th century, just a few decades before Mary Shelley wrote her science fiction masterpiece, the Italian surgeon Luigi Galvani jolted the scientific community with experiments that used metal and electricity to compel disembodied frog legs to kick.
—Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 12 Jan. 2026
Joe is plagued with visions of his dead father during his therapy sessions and hears disembodied voices whispering while hanging out with friends.
—Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 9 Jan. 2026
And then there are the various disembodied hands featured in many of the artist’s photographs and sculptures, nearly all of them fetishized in their evident—and sometimes errant—femininity.
—Ara H. Merjian, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
Gilberto Lopes, STAT, 12 Feb. 2026
Fischbach's protagonist is surrounded by disembodied voices in the clip, his only company until the red waters begin flooding the vessel.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Feb. 2026
Behind him, the disembodied hand of a federal agent grips his Spider-Man backpack.
—Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2026
The script leans heavily on exposition — internal monologues, disembodied intercom voices, and hallucinatory flashbacks — to communicate lore that might have resonated more powerfully through action or environment.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 29 Jan. 2026
Ahead of me, five more disembodied beams skittered across the snow, each emitting from the skiers ahead of me.
—Tim Neville, Travel + Leisure, 27 Jan. 2026
In the late 18th century, just a few decades before Mary Shelley wrote her science fiction masterpiece, the Italian surgeon Luigi Galvani jolted the scientific community with experiments that used metal and electricity to compel disembodied frog legs to kick.
—Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 12 Jan. 2026
Joe is plagued with visions of his dead father during his therapy sessions and hears disembodied voices whispering while hanging out with friends.
—Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 9 Jan. 2026
And then there are the various disembodied hands featured in many of the artist’s photographs and sculptures, nearly all of them fetishized in their evident—and sometimes errant—femininity.
—Ara H. Merjian, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disembodied
Adjective
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Her testimony led to the U.K.’s first bodiless murder conviction.—
Udita Jhunjhunwala,
Variety,
22 Nov. 2025
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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
Adjective
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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
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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
Adjective
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For another, the other three teammates are rendered practically invisible, despite being a key part of the movie’s ensemble.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
14 Mar. 2026
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Normally, such events are invisible to telescopes, producing only faint ripples in spacetime.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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There was something about it that felt spiritual.—
Outside,
Outside,
10 Mar. 2026
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The discovery of ancestral remains on their traditional territory carries profound cultural and spiritual weight.—
Ryan Brennan,
Charlotte Observer,
9 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Both are beatless, widescreen, and almost formless, little soundtracks to an imagined world in bloom.—
Alex Robert Ross,
Pitchfork,
13 Feb. 2026
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Following suit, Fanning’s skirt included the same formless shape with an irregular, midi hemline.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
13 Nov. 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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Some intangible substance consisting of people’s thoughts, memories, and wishes.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Mar. 2026
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Still, there will be something intangible lost when the sign and building are deconstructed.—
Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board,
The Orlando Sentinel,
8 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The Epstein island police activity, for example, is likely immaterial to anyone betting on markets related to Jeffrey Epstein on Polymarket.—
Joe Wilkins,
Futurism,
5 Mar. 2026
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And in a move that may seem immaterial to outside observers, 60 Minutes will in the coming weeks move from its historic base on West 57th across the street to the CBS Broadcast Center in Midtown Manhattan, joining the rest of the CBS News programming.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Feb. 2026
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“Disembodied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disembodied. Accessed 15 Mar. 2026.
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