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Recent Examples of disembodied
The six-minute quasi-title track works as a centerpiece, its compressed qanun (a stringed Middle Eastern instrument, played here by the acclaimed Syrian musician Maya Youssef) looping in the background as electronic pulses, foreboding pianos, and disembodied voices swirl around the mix.
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Alex Robert Ross,
Pitchfork,
15 June 2026
As is Takal, clearly having fun with the film’s queasy, lurching atmospherics, abetted by the sparse, shivery, atonal chimes of Jonathan Goldsmith’s score, and the floating, disembodied feel of Robert Leitzell’s camerawork.
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Guy Lodge,
Variety,
13 June 2026
In both Wilde’s play and Strauss’s opera, Salome is obsessed with Jokanaan (John the Baptist), who is being held as a political prisoner in a cistern, his disembodied voice floating around the stage.
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Literary Hub,
20 May 2026
Adults would look around, trying to spy the location of the body behind the disembodied voice.
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Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 May 2026
The first takes the shape of a group of disembodied eyes looking out on the Lagoon, the other a strange, towering black body.
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Brian Boucher,
ARTnews.com,
7 May 2026
Around his head hovers a cluster of disembodied faces — creepy alt-Altmans, their expressions ranging from anger to open-mouthed woe.
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Cath Virginia,
The Verge,
11 Apr. 2026
The ceremonial first pitch was delivered by Thing, the disembodied hand character from Netflix’s popular series Wednesday.
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Ryan Brennan,
Kansas City Star,
26 Mar. 2026
And that’s how the disembodied eyeball of one Heather Graham became the runaway star of SXSW.
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Jada Yuan,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2026
Alex Robert Ross,
Pitchfork,
15 June 2026
As is Takal, clearly having fun with the film’s queasy, lurching atmospherics, abetted by the sparse, shivery, atonal chimes of Jonathan Goldsmith’s score, and the floating, disembodied feel of Robert Leitzell’s camerawork.
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Guy Lodge,
Variety,
13 June 2026
In both Wilde’s play and Strauss’s opera, Salome is obsessed with Jokanaan (John the Baptist), who is being held as a political prisoner in a cistern, his disembodied voice floating around the stage.
—
Literary Hub,
20 May 2026
Adults would look around, trying to spy the location of the body behind the disembodied voice.
—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 May 2026
The first takes the shape of a group of disembodied eyes looking out on the Lagoon, the other a strange, towering black body.
—
Brian Boucher,
ARTnews.com,
7 May 2026
Around his head hovers a cluster of disembodied faces — creepy alt-Altmans, their expressions ranging from anger to open-mouthed woe.
—
Cath Virginia,
The Verge,
11 Apr. 2026
The ceremonial first pitch was delivered by Thing, the disembodied hand character from Netflix’s popular series Wednesday.
—
Ryan Brennan,
Kansas City Star,
26 Mar. 2026
And that’s how the disembodied eyeball of one Heather Graham became the runaway star of SXSW.
—
Jada Yuan,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disembodied
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The important things are often bodiless.
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That the bodiless voice of Captain Kafetzis was now coming to me live from above my proprietary Cashmere mattress indicated the obvious seriousness of what had happened in the night.
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Positioned as a large-scale genre event, the series updates the legendary SFX property with a contemporary political and social edge, with Shun Oguri leading the cast as a detective hunting a seemingly incorporeal killer.
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Christ Jesus’ example shows us how to turn away from material definitions of life by getting to know God as incorporeal divine Life.
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Dazzling Venus would be invisible due to its proximity to the sun.
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Developed by Giacomo Sasso, a postdoctoral researcher at Queen Mary University of London, this new tactile system allows robots to see touch in real time by instantly transforming invisible mechanical forces into vivid, dynamic color patterns.
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India’s religious and spiritual economy was estimated at roughly $58 billion in 2025, and is projected to grow steadily over the next decade.
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Amid a host of synthetic textures, the batá grounds the record in its spiritual reference; only the twins’ perspective changes.
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In contrast to the article’s portrait of a formless contest, recent polling portrays a race that is becoming more structured.
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Slowing and congealing the formless language of my thoughts.
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That sisterly correction, among a host of other elements as intangible and yet as instantly recognizable as great literary talent, is also part of what drives Lot 35 in Christie’s Exceptional Sale into its current stratosphere.
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Keep his minutes in check, stick him in front of the net on the power play, and there’s reason to think Perry can still deliver some tangible impact along with those intangible qualities.
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The money, in Gupta’s view, is immaterial.
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The fact that it was conceived without thought and for decades was produced and consumed without thought is immaterial.
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Some models even had feathers caught in their hair, adding to the collection’s ethereal mood.
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The 12 palatial pool villas are even more extravagant, with infinity pools, outdoor showers, and ethereal canopy beds.
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“Disembodied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disembodied. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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