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Recent Examples of cadaverOfficials are using cadaver dogs to comb through the thousands of structures damaged or destroyed in the fires to locate remains.—Kate Selig, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025 These researches obtained and analyzed tissue from cadavers from 2016 and 2024.—Sheah Rarback, Miami Herald, 13 Mar. 2025 While at shrinking Lake Mead a few gangster cadavers showed up in the mud, the Salton Sea contains crashed planes and practice bombs, the targets simulations during the 1940s for the real atomic bombs dropped on Japan.—Dennis Hinkamp, The Denver Post, 5 Feb. 2025 The police department called in cadaver dogs to search the canal, which led directly into the San Francisco bay.—Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for cadaver
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cadaver
corpse
Noun
However, a giant, grotesque monster burst through the door, toward the corpse.
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Zackery Cuevas,
PC Magazine,
11 June 2025
Over time, as the powder solidified and the corpses decomposed, mass graves in the form of random white hills became a fixture of this landscape.
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