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Recent Examples of carcassThe researchers placed pig carcasses within 500 m. (approx.—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2025 Your pick: The Morning’s most-clicked link yesterday was about the mystery of a missing whale carcass.—Ana Swanson, New York Times, 2 May 2025 The carcass was found so close to the state line that Brunswick County officials were able to move it to Sunset Beach in North Carolina so the University of North Carolina Wilmington Marine Mammal Stranding Program could perform the necropsy and tissue collection, officials said.—Mark Price, Miami Herald, 2 June 2025 Whale carcasses have been found as far north as Alamere Falls, as far west as Farallon Islands and as inland as Berkeley.—Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for carcass
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carcass
corpse
Noun
The scene is absurd to the point of funny—four men in tight quarters with an exposed corpse and yet affably disinterested.
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Diana Arterian
June 16,
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16 June 2025
One, set in a natural history museum, involves fossils; there’s a locked room mystery (with a mystery writer for a victim), which delights Patience, an Agatha Christie fan, and there’s a corpse that seemingly walks off a table in the morgue.
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