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Likely only dead individuals, floating as gases formed by putrefaction accumulated in body cavities, entered the lagoon.—David Bressan, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025 The agency has acquired and installed 10 body scanning devices, which officials said would enhance the agency's ability to detect items concealed in body cavities while reducing the need for invasive manual searches.—Jimmy Jenkins, AZCentral.com, 11 July 2025 Now fill the body cavity with shrimp, shedder crab, or menhaden oil to ramp up scent appeal.—Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 26 Mar. 2025 That particularly happens when police use the power of the justice system to force medical workers to do something to a suspect — a body cavity search, a blood draw, removal of a bullet fragment in search of evidence — that challenges their training and ethics.—Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 23 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for body cavity
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