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Recent Examples of cadavers
Other than Hogan and Worden, Gein’s subjects were all exhumed cadavers, though he is suspected to have been involved in the disappearance of additional women and girls from the area.
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Andrew McGowan, Variety, 3 Oct. 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
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
The unclaimed poor To meet the medical professon’s growing demand for cadavers, Massachusetts enacted the first anatomy law.
—Susan E. Lederer, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2023
Andrew McGowan, Variety, 3 Oct. 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
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
The unclaimed poor To meet the medical professon’s growing demand for cadavers, Massachusetts enacted the first anatomy law.
—Susan E. Lederer, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cadavers
Noun
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Rasoulof couldn’t be more blunt about the fact that success within Iran’s imposing bureaucracy means crushing other people, and sometimes walking over their corpses.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
20 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
Noun
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Leap has an uncanny ability to find bones and carcasses anywhere and then parade them in front of her friends.—
Abigail Wise,
Outside,
21 Oct. 2025
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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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“Cadavers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cadavers. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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