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Recent Examples of carcassIf possible, use a tool such as a shovel to pick up the carcass instead of your hands.—Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 17 Oct. 2025 Breakker dragged Reigns’ carcass out of the remnants from the table to help set up Reed for the Tsunami.—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025 The carcass was gone, the grass and weeds were licked clean of blood, and the knife was buried under debris.—Marguerite Reiss, Outdoor Life, 9 Oct. 2025 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.—Walt Hunter, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for carcass
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corpse
Noun
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.
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Keith Langston,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
And the mass graves of corpses evicted from San Francisco cemeteries a century ago.
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