body politic
noun
1
: a group of persons politically organized under a single governmental authority
2
archaic
: corporation sense 2
3
: a people considered as a collective unit
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There has never been, and shouldn't be, any acceptance within our body politic of a foreign policy shorn of moral concerns.
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Bradley Gitz, Arkansas Online, 9 Feb. 2026
The country has lost much of its ability to keep microbes from invading its body politic, and progress in life expectancy and other metrics is slowing or even reversing.
—Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2026
With the media’s normalization of white nationalism, recent years have made clear that there is a new urgency to assess the role that artists, through works of art, have played to illuminate the searing contours of the American body politic.
—Simon Njami, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
Jen Soriano tenderly, unflinchingly excavates layers of history and pain—found both in her body and our body politic—and offers all of us tools and materials to build a path toward wholeness.
—Gabrielle Bellot, Literary Hub, 1 Aug. 2025
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Bradley Gitz, Arkansas Online, 9 Feb. 2026
The country has lost much of its ability to keep microbes from invading its body politic, and progress in life expectancy and other metrics is slowing or even reversing.
—Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2026
With the media’s normalization of white nationalism, recent years have made clear that there is a new urgency to assess the role that artists, through works of art, have played to illuminate the searing contours of the American body politic.
—Simon Njami, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
Jen Soriano tenderly, unflinchingly excavates layers of history and pain—found both in her body and our body politic—and offers all of us tools and materials to build a path toward wholeness.
—Gabrielle Bellot, Literary Hub, 1 Aug. 2025
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“Body politic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/body%20politic. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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