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incorporeal

[in-kawr-pawr-ee-uhl, -pohr-] / ˌɪn kɔrˈpɔr i əl, -ˈpoʊr- /
ADJECTIVE
insubstantial
Synonyms


ADJECTIVE
divine
Synonyms


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In many ways, they are physical manifestations of artificial intelligence—an incorporeal technology—that’s fueling both big dreams and new nightmares.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

Those $200 in chips made the questions of financial responsibility that loomed over me in every other avenue of my life gloriously incorporeal.

From Slate Nov. 18, 2025

“It would mean that any criticism of the central government can be described as a terrorist act because the honor of India is its incorporeal property,” the court said in its bail order.

From Seattle Times Nov. 24, 2023

Their physical bodies — and your own — get entangled with those pictorial references to bodily experience, bringing a ghostly, incorporeal picture home.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 21, 2022

In Weep it was she who was the ghost, and an unbound one, invisible, incorporeal, insubstantial as a murmur.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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