body politic
nounDefinition of body politic
1
: a group of persons politically organized under a single governmental authority
3
: a people considered as a collective unit
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In 1911 Boas completed a major study examining the effects of immigration on the American body politic. — Charles King, Washington Post, "The anthropologists who upended the ‘science’ of white supremacy," 2 Aug. 2019 Those angry loner white boys with guns, this time in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, have again erupted on the body politic. — John Kass, Twin Cities, "John Kass: Weaponizing the dead of El Paso and Dayton," 9 Aug. 2019 Rusty Reno, the editor of the religious-conservative journal First Things, praised nationalism for making us reach beyond clan and kin to look after the well-being of the entire body politic. — Ramesh Ponnuru, The Denver Post, "Ponnuru: Smart conservatives give nationalism a good name, and a bad one," 16 July 2019 That is entirely consistent with a motivation to incite divisions and dissent in the body politic of free Western nations, which is Russia’s modus operandi. — Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review, "The Lessons of the Mueller Probe," 12 June 2019 His role in the American body politic should not be forgotten. — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Ross Perot changed American politics by disrupting Republicans and Democrats alike. We can learn from that.," 11 July 2019 These statistics are evidence of a rigged system, of a body politic that puts the interests of insurance companies, corporations, and pharmaceutical companies before the citizens who make this country worth protecting. — Nina Turner, Vogue, "Why Universal Health Care, Higher Wages, and Free Public Education Are Crucial Issues for Black Women," 3 May 2019 To this end, Ms. hooks outlines a political agenda derived from a comprehensive moral code governing the home and body politic. — Jillian Kay Melchior, WSJ, "A Prophet for the ‘Social Justice’ Movement," 20 Sep. 2018 Like previous rounds of political speech designed to stoke tensions within the American body politic, these items also targeted users in the United Kingdom, Latin America, and the Middle East. — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, "Facebook: Iran has been posting hundreds of fake pages since 2011," 22 Aug. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'body politic.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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