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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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