Antonyms for body politicbody politic

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1. • Political Unit

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1. state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politicnoun

   a politically organized body of people under a single government

   "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land"

   Synonyms:
   landed estate, state of matter, commonwealth, ground, nation, farming, province, res publica, kingdom, solid ground, state, dry land, estate, realm, land, country, soil, area, acres, republic, demesne, earth, democracy, rural area, terra firma, domain

How to use body politic in a sentence?

1. Tom McMillen:

   The body politic has shifted left, there’s no question about it, and that’s toward more student-athlete empowerment.

2. Plato:

   Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.

3. June Jordan:

   If any of us hopes to survive, s/he must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive and indefensible subjugation of the majority of Americans cannot continue except at the peril of the entire body politic.

4. Jennifer Granholm:

   President Trump is no longer a mere possibility as President Trump was in 2016 ; President Trump is a poisonous cancer that we urgently must remove from our body politic, and second, I think the vote was more for Joe Biden than against Bernie Sanders.

5. Tom Rawles:

   I think the last three to six weeks have been a turning point, we can always fight over the issues. But we need to cut out the cancer that is infecting the body politic of America.

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