body
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Minns corrected himself shortly afterwards, and told the hearing that "Lily's body has been found" and she was deceased.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Current treatments do not work equally well for everyone, and many commonly used therapies broadly suppress immune activity throughout the body.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
He also has the body of exactly the sort of person who would be called Tugboat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
He was once one of China's richest billionaires and a member of the Communist Party's top political advisory body.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
My body is fighting in two directions, against two foes.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
And in the world of strict liability, where elite athletes are solely responsible for what they put in their bodies, how do they make sure they stay clean?
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
In Hungary, the bodies of two World War Two German soldiers were recovered from the Danube River in Budapest earlier this month.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Top awards bodies whiffed on her complex Selina/Catwoman in “Batman Returns” and heartbreaking Betty Ford on Showtime’s “The First Lady.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Several days passed before Israel’s military helped U.N. personnel locate the bodies, which were in a mass grave by a white electricity pole.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Our bodies turned with the current and Peach’s back scraped along the oak.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
But Colón’s instrumental preference changed once he heard the bodied timbre of Mon Rivera’s all-trombone brass lineup marching to a bomba beat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2026
He bodied Walker at one stage, put him on the ground.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2024
But there has also been some debate about when regional endothermy evolved, and whether extinct species like the megalodon was warm bodied.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2023
"Since there are no paper filters involved, French press brews a cup which retains all of the coffee's natural oils, resulting in a very full bodied and rich cup."
From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2023
Friday afternoon, and from right here I could see three miles of land that hadn't even been broken, and every able bodied man in the county in town at that show.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
“I thought they really started bodying us on drives, bumping us on drives,” Willard said.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2023
On the other, he was bodying up players like Jae’Sean Tate, poking the ball loose before turning to the crowd and signaling “out” like an umpire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2021
Morgan controlled an overhead ball by bodying defender Clare Polkinghorne.
From Reuters ● Apr. 5, 2019
Finally, Pena jumped into the fray, bodying up post players over a half-foot taller.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2017
Man is a soul, informed by divine ideas, and bodying forth their image.
From Tablets by Amos Bronson Alcott
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Expository Writing, List 1
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Literary Terms, Grade 6, Units 2–3
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