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单词 body politic
释义

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Totalitarian regimes are cancers in the international body politic. Steve Walker, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2022 As much as the war waxed and waned in the public consciousness, Afghanistan was, by virtue of the troops serving there, part of the American body politic for 20 years. New York Times, 8 Aug. 2022 Saturate the body politic with the chemotherapy of antiracist policies that shrink the tumors of racial inequities. Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2022 Presumably, a purified and exorcised body politic awaits. Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 22 Feb. 2022 This kind of thing will only grow as the sanity of the American body politic continues to erode, and as many on the right and the left abandon the grubby field of reality for a simplistic battle between good and evil. Matti Friedman, The Atlantic, 15 July 2022 The denial of women's citizenship rights in particular fits within a larger assault on historically marginalized groups that has become so prevalent within our body politic. Peniel E. Joseph, CNN, 2 July 2022 They were composed during the Trump presidency, as the pandemic and George Floyd’s killing unsettled both the body politic and individual psyches in the United States. Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2022 As the American body politic splintered over the past decade, some dedicated men and women worked to keep left and right together. Matt Sandgren, WSJ, 24 Apr. 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Legal Definition

body politic

noun

body pol·​i·​tic
-ˈpä-lə-tik
plural bodies politic
: a group of individuals organized under a single governmental authority
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