Body
Body noun - A group of people acting together within a larger group.
Usage example: feared that there was a body of extremists within the labor union
Sect
Sect noun - A group of people acting together within a larger group.
Usage example: one sect of medical researchers holds the minority view that the disease is not caused by that virus
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- The early Christians, as with the sect of the Pharisees, believed that life after death involved not living in some alternate spiritual plane of existence, but a Resurrection of the Dead in a new, glorified body.
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The building of the sect becomes her body.
Source: Manga / Franken Fran -
In Harry Potter and the Elder Sect Harry gives Voldemort a new body but fixes things so it will be perpetually fourteen.
Source: Not Growing Up Sucks
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Sect and Body. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/body/sect
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