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noun

ˈbä-dē How to pronounce body (audio)
Definition of bodynext
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as in weight
the main or greater part of something as distinguished from its subordinate parts the body of the novel was quite good, even if the beginning was a bit slow

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as in mass
a distinct and separate portion of matter to the early explorers the Atlantic was a gigantic and forbidding body of water

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as in faction
a group of people acting together within a larger group feared that there was a body of extremists within the labor union

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as in network
a group of people sharing a common interest and relating together socially a hangout where, it seems, much of the student body can be found on a Saturday night

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as in person
a member of the human race the most intelligent body in this entire place

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as in group
a usually small number of persons considered as a unit a body of security men accompany the president at all times

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body

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verb

as in to embody
to represent in visible form abstract sculpture that bodies forth the artist's aesthetic of minimalism

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Recent Examples of body
Noun
The market for profiting off male body anxiety is nothing new. — Gavin Francis, The New York Review of Books, 24 Oct. 2026 The male of the species remains alone with the eggs and fights off predators until his body gives out, at which point his flesh becomes the hatchlings’ first food. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 24 Oct. 2026
Verb
Shamet stays active and takes complete advantage of the sloppy play from the all-star while Anunoby bodies Mobley enough to throw him off balance from receiving an entry pass. — Tom Rende, Forbes.com, 2 June 2026 While between 30 and 35 examples of the 208 model were built by 1955, only seven bodied by Balbo remain. — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 21 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for body
Recent Examples of Synonyms for body
  1. weight
  2. mass
  3. faction
  4. network
  5. person
  6. group
  7. embody
  8. core
Noun
  • Higher energy density could allow automakers to achieve longer driving ranges without increasing battery size or weight.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Flight imposes strict weight limits, so birds pack enormous numbers of very small neurons into very small brains.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 23 Oct. 2026
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Noun
  • Clashes erupted in Paris as a mass march drew to a close Saturday, with more than 400,000 people rallying across France over school funding and soaring living costs in a fresh challenge to President Emmanuel Macron.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Stupendously large black holes greater than 1 million billion to 10 million billion suns in mass would be heavier than entire galaxies.
    — Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of mass
Noun
  • Yet that position, unpopular with factions in both parties, is also unpopular with some inside his deeply loyalist White House.
    — Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Flávio has promised to designate major criminal factions as terrorist groups, expand prisons and lower the age of criminal responsibility.
    — Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of faction
Noun
  • The additional site will further strengthen the company’s manufacturing network in Colorado and provide additional capacity for its growing space and sensor systems business.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Meanwhile, Elon Musk, who has spent more than four hundred million dollars on Republican campaigns this election cycle, slowed Ukraine’s access to his Starshield satellite network, leaving that country more vulnerable to Russian attacks.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of network
Noun
  • The person spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a continuing criminal investigation.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2026
  • At current growth rates, output per person doubles in twenty years in the US and takes forty-three years in the EU.
    — Stephen Messer, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of person
Noun
  • The case originates from a change in admissions policy that began a decade ago, when a consulting group was hired to evaluate how the school system chose students for its middle school magnet programs.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The money will go to conservation groups and local partners working on species the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classifies as endangered, critically endangered, or extinct in the wild.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of group
Verb
  • The richest man in America, Elon Musk, has also at times appeared to have the thinnest skin, and embodies a generation of tech figures obsessed by what strangers say about them on social media.
    — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 26 Oct. 2026
  • The results are most effective when the lyrics are tight and embody the colorful feelings that Greene’s music often evokes.
    — Kiana Mickles, Pitchfork, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of embody
Noun
  • Meanwhile, the MacBook Neo's iPhone-grade chip outperformed Googlebooks’ processors in single-core performance, while losing out on multi-core performance by varying (but overall large) margins.
    — Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026
  • As that enormous dome thinned through the Holocene, its margin withdrew up onto Baffin Island, and what’s left today is the deflated core of something that was once two miles thick.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 24 Oct. 2026
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“Body.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/body. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.

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