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
“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
After the war ended, it resumed and became ever stronger in the Confederate portion of the body politic.
From Salon • Mar. 23, 2024
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
