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
For example, the Vietnam War wound down and no longer was this gaping wound on the body politic.
From Slate • Sep. 12, 2025
That’s unhealthy for the body politic — and for voters themselves.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 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
Through The Mecca I saw that we were, in our own segregated body politic, cosmopolitans.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
