physicality

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Recent Examples of physicality Despite her physicality, Reese is only 6-foot-3, which often puts her at a height disadvantage against opposing centers and forwards. Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2025 This is unexpected, even counterintuitive, in a play about an elderly woman with mobility issues and a humanoid machine, yet such physicality is entirely normal in a Rivera play. Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2025 As for the extreme physicality required for this comedic turn? Pete Hammond, Deadline, 13 June 2025 Tanner Jeannot Fit: Top-nine winger The Leafs should be trying to Berube-ize the roster this summer with more size, bite and physicality. Jonas Siegel, New York Times, 17 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for physicality
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animality
Noun
  • This strangeness causes all sorts of internal agitation, an uneasiness about humanity’s closeness to animality.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2025
  • But also, something more intrinsic — something like her animality.
    Camille Bromley Gabra Zackman Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025

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“Physicality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/physicality. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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