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Recent Examples of body bag
After the passenger was placed in a body bag for removal from the aircraft, they were then transported though an emergency exit behind the wings.
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Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 29 Dec. 2025
Highlights include a water-repellent, sweat-wicking ski parka that reimagines a 1990s ACG jacket from the archives, and a cross-body bag.
—Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2025
Brown ordered body bag on eBay Tieger said Brown lived in Lattimore’s apartment with her body for several days.
—Kevin Grasha, Cincinnati Enquirer, 10 Sep. 2025
Considering viewers never saw his actual body, just a full body bag with his helmet sitting next to it, questions naturally arose.
—Rachel McRady, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025
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Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 29 Dec. 2025
Highlights include a water-repellent, sweat-wicking ski parka that reimagines a 1990s ACG jacket from the archives, and a cross-body bag.
—Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2025
Brown ordered body bag on eBay Tieger said Brown lived in Lattimore’s apartment with her body for several days.
—Kevin Grasha, Cincinnati Enquirer, 10 Sep. 2025
Considering viewers never saw his actual body, just a full body bag with his helmet sitting next to it, questions naturally arose.
—Rachel McRady, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for body bag
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Jack Burnell-Williams, who served in the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment and walked with the late monarch’s coffin during her funeral in September 2022, was found unresponsive shortly after at army barracks in London and was pronounced dead.—
Bailey Richards,
PEOPLE,
11 Jan. 2026
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Whoever has a coffin in their grave at the end of things, is up for murder.—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
9 Jan. 2026
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In a way, the old barrel filling house and the distillery’s cooperage function as an eerie sarcophagus for the bourbon industry’s downfall in the 1980s.—
Maggie Menderski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
19 Dec. 2025
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The team had already excavated the other three corners of a narrow tomb occupied by an imposing, unnamed sarcophagus.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
5 Dec. 2025
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As his casket was escorted to the Maranatha Baptist Church, which had become something of a second home to him, the whole community lined the familiar streets with signs of affection toward their local hero.—
Kyler Alvord,
PEOPLE,
31 Dec. 2025
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Asked organizers if there will be a body inside the casket.—
Kirk Kenney,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Dec. 2025
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Under every Sale & Clearance section is a link to open-box deals, which are dramatically discounted items that have been opened and returned, potentially without their packaging.—
Quincy Bulin,
Better Homes & Gardens,
16 Jan. 2026
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While larger items, like a laptop or camera, won’t fit inside, this portable box is a great way to ensure all your smaller valuables are in one place.—
Jillian Dara,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Jan. 2026
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The latest Lara Croft actress, Game of Thrones alum Sophie Turner, has revealed that reading a script for the new live-action Tomb Raider series is as difficult as, uh, raiding a tomb!—
Joey Nolfi,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Jan. 2026
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Between 2022 and 2024, the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology excavated a series of ancient tombs in the Jiali Village of Zi’an.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Jan. 2026
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Most of them go deep into the memory vault of childhood, recalling fishing trips and family gatherings.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Jan. 2026
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After five years, the vault of positive affirmations that had introduced Fine Line reverted to a blank screen.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
13 Jan. 2026
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While lying in state, the coffin was placed not on an elevated bier, but facing the pews.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
25 Apr. 2025
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Inside the 16th-century basilica, his casket won't be put on an elevated bier—as was the case with past popes—but will just be placed on the main alta, simply facing the pews.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Apr. 2025
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“Body bag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/body%20bag. Accessed 19 Jan. 2026.
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