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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Even worse, Grant warned, the literal body politic of the United States was now being threatened by race defilement, especially given the influx of new arrivals from southern and eastern Europe since the 1890s.
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Charles King, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
The Senate was designed to moderate the U.S. body politic.
—Brian McGuire, National Review, 5 Mar. 2024
The 9/11 attacks and the wars that followed fundamentally rearranged the American national-security apparatus, destabilized the Middle East, and left lasting scars on the American body politic.
—Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2024
The bill would convert the nonprofit into an independent body politic, similar to the Idaho Housing and Finance Association.
—Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 26 Mar. 2024
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Charles King, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
The Senate was designed to moderate the U.S. body politic.
—Brian McGuire, National Review, 5 Mar. 2024
The 9/11 attacks and the wars that followed fundamentally rearranged the American national-security apparatus, destabilized the Middle East, and left lasting scars on the American body politic.
—Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2024
The bill would convert the nonprofit into an independent body politic, similar to the Idaho Housing and Finance Association.
—Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 26 Mar. 2024
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“Body politic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/body%20politic. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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