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Recent Examples of incorporeal If reason teaches that God is incorporeal, this means that God has no body; God does not physically see, nor do people see God. Randy L. Friedman, The Conversation, 16 Feb. 2024 The digital files are incorporeal. BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2021 The network is incorporeal. J.m. Ledgard, Wired, 12 May 2021 After all, if someone can live without a brain, this would seem to open the door to belief in an incorporeal soul. Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2020 Their physical bodies — and your own — get entangled with those pictorial references to bodily experience, bringing a ghostly, incorporeal picture home. Christopher Knightart Critic, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2022 Apart from the incorporeal fence through which my virtual car glides, the experience is a compelling facsimile of the world. Alex Davies, WIRED, 18 July 2019 But after the away team meets the Guardian of Forever, an incorporeal lifeform tasked with guarding a time gateway, the show takes a more interesting turn. Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 29 June 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incorporeal
Adjective
  • For deeper spiritual guidance, Tarot and Angel Card Readings offer encouragement and clarity about the past, present, and future.
    Kate Donnelly, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
  • Now, the women, who now live in Michigan, are focused on the future and taking care of their mental, spiritual and physical health.
    Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2025
Adjective
  • Her interest in mysteries and the occult began in the metaphysical section at her local Borders.
    Roya Backlund, StyleCaster, 16 May 2025
  • In my adolescence, the fight turned emotional and metaphysical, mirroring the peaks and valleys of hormonal mood shifts.
    Carla Sosenko, Vogue, 8 May 2025
Adjective
  • Ghosting, a supernatural thriller written by Brian DeCubellis and K.S. Bruce and to be directed by Brian DeCubellis, which is now casting; and The Confidence Men, based on the book by Margalit Fox, whose screenplay was adapted by Jez Scharf (Bodkin), and which is currently targeting a director.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 17 May 2025
  • This supernatural short takes place in London in 1757 where a visionary writer locked in an insane asylum is targeted by the Devil to compose a specific poem that will allow him to lord over the Earth and its inhabitants.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 17 May 2025
Adjective
  • Turn your LinkedIn presence from invisible to influential.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
  • Baca, who has been leading these workshops since 2011, recalled a moment from one: Everett Cox, a Vietnam War veteran who had kept away from everything military for decades, responded to a prompt of action verbs by expertly stabbing and slashing with an invisible bayonet.
    Dina Litovsky, New York Times, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • So, how can the immaterial affect the material?
    Big Think, Big Think, 12 Apr. 2025
  • The orchestra produces a ravishment of sound both immaterial and downright tactile.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • What are intangible assets? Intangible assets are nonphysical resources that generate economic and strategic value, such as patents, trademarks, customer trust and innovation capacity.
    Tami Saito, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Ansari answers crypto question with call for campaign finance reform Ansari’s candidacy was boosted by a massive expenditure from advocates of cryptocurrency, the digital currencies that exist on nonphysical, decentralized ledger systems.
    Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 17 Oct. 2024

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“Incorporeal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incorporeal. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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