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Recent Examples of corpse
His spectral like figure seems to rise from the corpse, approaching the camera’s lens before vanishing.
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Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 11 June 2026
In Episode 4, Twila and Bea need to retrieve a gun and a passport from the corpse of a contact who fell off a bridge into the river.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 11 June 2026
He was convicted on May 7 of first-degree murder, tampering with physical evidence and concealment of a human corpse after a jury trial in Brooklyn Supreme Court.
—Ben Brachfeld, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026
Leonard previously pleaded guilty to abandonment of a corpse for dumping the boy’s body in Bates County, Missouri, and was sentenced to four years, though the new case records have not been made available on the Kansas Judicial Branch public database.
—Ian Cummings, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2026
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Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 11 June 2026
In Episode 4, Twila and Bea need to retrieve a gun and a passport from the corpse of a contact who fell off a bridge into the river.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 11 June 2026
He was convicted on May 7 of first-degree murder, tampering with physical evidence and concealment of a human corpse after a jury trial in Brooklyn Supreme Court.
—Ben Brachfeld, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026
Leonard previously pleaded guilty to abandonment of a corpse for dumping the boy’s body in Bates County, Missouri, and was sentenced to four years, though the new case records have not been made available on the Kansas Judicial Branch public database.
—Ian Cummings, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for corpse
Noun
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In images shared by HM Coastguard Canvey, the bluish-gray carcass appears to have scarring along its underside, with no clear indication of its cause of death.—
Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
15 June 2026
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Feeding and living on the carcasses were myriad creatures, large and small, including sea cucumbers, squat lobsters and saltwater clams.—
Adithi Ramakrishnan,
Los Angeles Times,
14 June 2026
Noun
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The woodcut birth figures contained in these books were not images drawn from observation—pregnant cadavers for anatomical drawing were hard to come by—but were instead abstracted diagrams of the chaotic diversity of laboring bodies.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 June 2026
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Lamb Avgerinos, a 33-year-old dog handler, drove 18 hours from Georgia with four of his cadaver dogs piled into his truck.—
Karen Valby,
Vanity Fair,
16 June 2026
Noun
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Over centuries, relics of saints have been buried in the caves, according to UNESCO.—
Victoria Butenko,
CNN Money,
15 June 2026
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Books, movies, and museums have become increasingly interactive, but there's still nothing quite like standing in the very places where fossils and relics were discovered, or watching history reenacted.—
Alexandra Emanuelli,
Southern Living,
12 June 2026
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“Corpse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corpse. Accessed 21 Jun. 2026.
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