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politic | American Dictionary

politic
adjective
us/ˈpɑl·ɪˌtɪk/
wise or practical:
It would not be politic for you to be seen there.

Examples of politic

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These were not purely exogenous "shocks" to the southern body politic.
This is also seen in the late twentieth century concepts of the body politic.
The fear of standing armies went hand-in-hand with the fear of a corruption of the body politic.
Repression and violence become an essence of the body politic, as it were. 20.
The transformation of the central provincial relationship was in all probability neither politic nor possible in the short term.
In short, talking about politics appears to have the salubrious effects for the body politic that democratic theorists have alleged it does.
The phenotypic view of the body politic stands in opposition to these three major perspectives and integrates them without giving any predominance.
They remain in the fabric of the body/body politic like a corporeal unconscious.
This energy could result in a fever for the body politic : but this would be a cleansing and restoring fever.
It is for this that we are accountable as a body politic, not for the decisions and solutions arrived by others.
We want the velvet-glove treatment with our own work; therefore, we may well remain politic about others' practical work in the meantime.
Pentecostalism was less of a shock to the religious body politic than elsewhere.
Is the body politic the genetic, immune, or neural body?
This view was based on a particular analysis of the effects of centralization on the body politic.
These fictions illuminate constructions of racialized gender not only permeating the political imaginary but also shaping the body politic.
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