body politic
Example Sentences
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It was the most extreme expression of a wound to the body politic that has been allowed to fester.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025
As I continue this journey, I believe the most important strategy that has been omitted to date is holistic healing for our body politic.
From Salon • Jan. 21, 2025
“If we possess anything important in our citizenship, it’s the ability to vote and to participate in the body politic of our localities in our nation,” Lacy said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2024
And if the fish happens to be so contaminated it will poison the body politic, you’ll take the chicken.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 30, 2023
Or if one wished to think biologically rather than architecturally, the body politic had yet to develop its immunities to the political diseases afflicting all new nations.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
