corporal
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Brydson, an ex-army corporal from Renfrew, was housemaster at Monken Hadley.
From BBC • Jan. 29, 2026
Led by a disaffected corporal who never liked Sutton and who dreams of collapsing the crypto-economy to his financial benefit, the group attempt to take her and the First Family hostage.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2025
Banning corporal punishment also had been a primary demand of student and teacher activists who took part in widespread Latino student walkouts from L.A. schools in 1968.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025
Blevins, the wife of the Camp Lejeune Marine corporal, had been getting food from pantries periodically over the past few years to offset rising grocery costs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 8, 2025
The period between the late eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth centuries, wrote Michel Foucault, saw “the disappearance of torture as a public spectacle” and the gradual phasing out of corporal punishments.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
Vocabulary lists containing corporal
Body Language: Corp ("Body")
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