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[bod-ee] / ˈbɒd i /








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The GoFundMe campaign seeks to raise funds to take Wright’s body back to New York, to cover funeral costs and to help provide for the producer’s family.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

The institutions added a net 321 metric tons to their reserves in the period, driven by portfolio diversification and risk management, according to the World Gold Council, an industry body representing gold miners.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

"I'm paralysed by my body keeping score," he adds, over the portentous drums of Weight of it All.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

It’s a body of nostalgic American hopefulness that, to a cynic, may seem hopelessly out of touch with the reality of our fractured times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

The moment I glide my bow across the surface of the cello, I can feel my body begin to relax.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Unlike the president’s edicts to rename large bodies of water or a mountain in Alaska, rebranding AI is trickier for companies that have staked their futures, even names, on it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

On spending, it added that public bodies had made "limited progress" overall in understanding how much it will cost to decarbonise in the near or longer term.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

The findings challenge expectations about how planets form and suggest that these distant, icy bodies have preserved evidence of their origins for billions of years.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026

Henkels is working his way up in a sport filled with talented athletes who have to maneuver their bodies like a gymnast in pursuit of a perfect score of 100 from the judges.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026

But Ushers, Brickbane once explained, had already left the gravity of their living bodies.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Their ancient relatives were likely similar in being soft bodied marine organisms.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 27, 2026

He bodied Walker at one stage, put him on the ground.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2024

"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

WAITER: Our chianti is quite good, medium bodied with just a hint of cherry HOPPER: Great!

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2022

Some phrases beginning with full are hyphenated: full-blooded, full-blown, full- bodied, full-bore, full-fledged, full-scale, full-service, full-size, full-time, and so on.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

“I thought they really started bodying us on drives, bumping us on drives,” Willard said.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2023

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

There is no other singer I can think of who is better or more practiced at bodying existential duress.

From The New Yorker ● May 5, 2016

The other writings of the New Testament illustrate the working of the thought and spirit of the Christ in the Church bodying around Him through the growth of a century.

From The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible by R. Heber Newton


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