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Recent Examples of cadaver
Despite an exhaustive search using drones, cadaver dogs and divers, authorities have never found Delphine's body or any other forensic evidence, The Times of London reports.
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Kc Baker, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
Drones and cadaver dogs helped locate the remains, the outlet noted.
—Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 19 Sep. 2025
The authors argue that those features, the intact, hyper-flexed skeletons and the absence of the disarticulation expected after ordinary decay, indicate bodies had been desiccated before burial rather than interred as fresh cadavers.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
After searches with cadaver dogs and tracking of electronic records, there were answers in the weeks that followed.
—Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 14 Sep. 2025
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Kc Baker, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
Drones and cadaver dogs helped locate the remains, the outlet noted.
—Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 19 Sep. 2025
The authors argue that those features, the intact, hyper-flexed skeletons and the absence of the disarticulation expected after ordinary decay, indicate bodies had been desiccated before burial rather than interred as fresh cadavers.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
After searches with cadaver dogs and tracking of electronic records, there were answers in the weeks that followed.
—Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 14 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cadaver
corpse
Noun
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As recently as 20 years ago, in southern Romania, a man believed to be a vampire was exhumed, and his corpse ritually mutilated.—
Robert Eggers,
HollywoodReporter,
17 Oct. 2025
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Clearly, their architectural features confound the birds, turning the buildings into death traps where volunteers find corpses again and again.—
NPR,
NPR,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Cadaver.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cadaver. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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