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

That’s unhealthy for the body politic — and for voters themselves.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2024

After the war ended, it resumed and became ever stronger in the Confederate portion of the body politic.

From Salon • Mar. 23, 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

Or if one wished to think biologically rather than architecturally, the body politic had yet to develop its immunities to the political diseases afflicting all new nations.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis