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His landscapes are muddy and void, prone to sudden invasion by disturbing strangers, including the giant whale carcass that arrives on a train at the beginning of his 1989 novel, The Melancholy of Resistance.
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Walt Hunter, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
In the next scene, Ed treats his first fan—his sometime girlfriend Adeline Watkins—to the spectacle of a dead, nude woman, eviscerated and strung up like a carcass in a slaughterhouse.
—Judy Berman, Time, 6 Oct. 2025
Insects make quick work of dead animals, often consuming the soft parts of a carcass before it is even noticed by humans.
—Steven Sullivan, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2025
But a lot of risk in eating a rotting carcass that has sat in the sun a day too long.
—Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
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Walt Hunter, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
In the next scene, Ed treats his first fan—his sometime girlfriend Adeline Watkins—to the spectacle of a dead, nude woman, eviscerated and strung up like a carcass in a slaughterhouse.
—Judy Berman, Time, 6 Oct. 2025
Insects make quick work of dead animals, often consuming the soft parts of a carcass before it is even noticed by humans.
—Steven Sullivan, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2025
But a lot of risk in eating a rotting carcass that has sat in the sun a day too long.
—Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for carcass
corpse
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The character was loosely inspired by Ed Gein, a real serial killer and grave robber from Wisconsin who dug up corpses and used their bones and skin to make everything from clothing to furniture and even silverware.—
Keith Langston,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
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And the mass graves of corpses evicted from San Francisco cemeteries a century ago.—
Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Carcass.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carcass. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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