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corporeal

[kawr-pawr-ee-uhl, -pohr-] / kɔrˈpɔr i əl, -ˈpoʊr- /


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These, however, also feel funereal, like death masks taken after a long-suffering friend has been freed finally from corporeal struggles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

He said that in all the monasteries he had visited "no Buddhists regard these as corporeal relics".

From BBC • Jul. 31, 2025

These patrons continue to misunderstand the corporeal appeal of someone like Joe Rogan, an allure that can’t be articulated within the bloodless context of a boardroom meeting.

From Slate • May 21, 2025

According to Butler, normative society imposes behaviors and expressions that define what is a man or woman to the point where our perception of even corporeal sexual differences is shaped by gendered conventions.

From Salon • Sep. 3, 2024

“It was not corporeal, to be touched like you or me,” he said.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein




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