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Recent Examples of carcassesScores of the calf carcasses have been washing ashore around Peninsula Valdes, a major breeding ground for southern right whales in Argentina’s Chubut province.—ABC News,
2 Oct. 2026 For instance, the Department of Natural Resources submitted a rule for legislative approval that sets up containment areas and disposes of carcasses for diseased animals.—CBS News,
27 Sep. 2026 Poisoning or trapping only releases the fungus from carcasses.—
Susanne Rust
follow,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Sep. 2026 Cotter was given village board approval this week to continue outsourcing the work and to collect carcasses from private property.—
Gloria Casas,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Sep. 2026 The hook in one panel evokes Chaïm Soutine, who painted slaughterhouses while keeping kosher, fascinated and horrified by the carnival of carcasses that to others had been normalized.—
Emily Watlington,
ARTnews.com,
18 Sep. 2026 Other state regulations prohibit hunters from transporting any deer or elk carcasses from any state where chronic wasting disease has been documented into Connecticut, unless the meat has been de-boned, according to DEEP.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
15 Sep. 2026 Then, in March of 1992, some forty godwit carcasses were seized from a poacher in New Zealand.—
Rivka Galchen,
New Yorker,
14 Sep. 2026 Though researchers have observed evidence of humans hunting large megafauna in later periods, the discovery suggests that early humans processed elephant carcasses more systematically.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
14 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carcasses
corpses
Noun
But Holmes was later resurrected—his creator needed some fast cash, yes, but Britain wanted for good crime-solvers, to go by the glut of corpses and killers in Sleuth-hound.
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Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
22 Sep. 2026
Stellar mass black holes are basically the corpses of dead stars.