body politic
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It is like a virus in the body politic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
What hope of freedom was there unless Black Americans were accepted as full members of the body politic?
From Slate ● Oct. 7, 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
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