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Recent Examples of cadavers
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.
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Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
Instead, the evidence suggested that the bodies were dried and preserved, buried in a desiccated state, rather than as fresh cadavers.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
Instead, the evidence suggested that the bodies were dried and preserved, buried in a desiccated state, rather than as fresh cadavers.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cadavers
Noun
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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
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Brady’s troop of photographers appear to have sometimes moved corpses to compose a better shot.—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
27 Sep. 2025
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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“Cadavers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cadavers. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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