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
“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
And it has survived to some degree for more than 150 years, tucked into the cracks of our body politic.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 21, 2024
"In the body politic as in the body personal, nonresistance to the milder indulgences paves the way for nonresistance to the deadlier."
From Salon • Jul. 20, 2023
The body politic was so disordered that all government seemed suspended.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
