corporal
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With his older brother John, he ran a school, having left a previous teaching post from a disinclination to administer corporal punishment.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026
Robert Docter, an L.A. school board member in the 1970s who successfully pushed to end corporal punishment and who sacrificed his political career trying to integrate campuses through busing, has died at 97.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025
Alicia Blevins’s husband, Nathaniel, brings home $3,200 a month as a Marine corporal at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 8, 2025
A 96-year-old former RAF corporal who left school when he was 14 has become the oldest contestant in Countdown history.
From BBC • Aug. 11, 2025
As early as 1682, William Penn’s colonial government experimented with incarceration as an alternative to corporal and capital punishment.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
Vocabulary lists containing corporal
Body Language: Corp ("Body")
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"Macbeth": Act 1 Scene 7
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