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Recent Examples of corpses
Gein only admitted to the killing of two women, Worden and Mary Hogan, and stealing corpses from graves.
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Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 6 Oct. 2025
In the world of Monster, a person who takes lives and desecrates corpses might someday be capable of redemption.
—Judy Berman, Time, 6 Oct. 2025
Alongside using the corpses to create furniture for his house, Ed also began constructing a skin suit of a woman made from human remains of at least 15 women, per A&E.
—Yasmeen Hamadeh, PEOPLE, 5 Oct. 2025
Ed Gein, who became infamous for crimes committed in rural Plainfield, Wisconsin, admitted to the killing of two women and stealing corpses from graves.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
His digits, his body, his very skin remind him of Nazis, and of American troops posing with the corpses of Vietnamese victims.
—Rebecca Van Laer
september 30, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
The vengeful, eponymous matriarch, played by German actress Maja Tervooren (Maren Eggert), has killed her children and attempts to present their bloodied corpses to her husband Jason, embodied fiercely by French-Senegalese star Nourou Cissokho (Jean-Christophe Folly).
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 28 Sep. 2025
Brady’s troop of photographers appear to have sometimes moved corpses to compose a better shot.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2025
The stars will all burn out; the corpses of these stars will radiate all their heat away and cool to absolute zero; the stellar remnants will gravitationally interact, ejecting the majority of objects into intergalactic space, while the few remaining black holes grow to enormous sizes.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 6 Oct. 2025
In the world of Monster, a person who takes lives and desecrates corpses might someday be capable of redemption.
—Judy Berman, Time, 6 Oct. 2025
Alongside using the corpses to create furniture for his house, Ed also began constructing a skin suit of a woman made from human remains of at least 15 women, per A&E.
—Yasmeen Hamadeh, PEOPLE, 5 Oct. 2025
Ed Gein, who became infamous for crimes committed in rural Plainfield, Wisconsin, admitted to the killing of two women and stealing corpses from graves.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
His digits, his body, his very skin remind him of Nazis, and of American troops posing with the corpses of Vietnamese victims.
—Rebecca Van Laer
september 30, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
The vengeful, eponymous matriarch, played by German actress Maja Tervooren (Maren Eggert), has killed her children and attempts to present their bloodied corpses to her husband Jason, embodied fiercely by French-Senegalese star Nourou Cissokho (Jean-Christophe Folly).
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 28 Sep. 2025
Brady’s troop of photographers appear to have sometimes moved corpses to compose a better shot.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2025
The stars will all burn out; the corpses of these stars will radiate all their heat away and cool to absolute zero; the stellar remnants will gravitationally interact, ejecting the majority of objects into intergalactic space, while the few remaining black holes grow to enormous sizes.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for corpses
carcasses
Noun
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Do not even think of bringing home any carcasses.—
Inga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Sep. 2025
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Deer carcasses and parts should go directly to a landfill or be disposed of through your regular bagged trash pickup.—
Jalen Williams,
Freep.com,
24 Sep. 2025
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“Corpses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corpses. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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