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Recent Examples of carcasses
The years slowly moved away from us, its silence uncanny, but the smell of carcasses was unfathomable.
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Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Once, a meat processor asked about plugs to keep entrails from sheep carcasses from spilling onto production lines.
—Jia H. Jung, Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2025
The tiny carcasses were discovered during a beach nest survey by the nonprofit Beaches Sea Turtle Patrol, which works to protect the five species of endangered sea turtles found in Florida waters.
—Mark Price, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
The teenager, who spoke in hushed, decorous bursts, had months earlier shot rats near a friend’s camp in Manchac, dressed the carcasses (an intricate process, given the animal’s size), and frozen their haunches.
—Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Just this one pipe yielded the carcasses of hundreds of birds and animals, including kestrels, flickers, bluebirds, and fence lizards that had become trapped over a time period of 50 years.
—Grrlscientist, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Senate Bill 305 says highway drivers must slow and move over for parking enforcement vehicles and animal control crews removing carcasses from roadways.
—Eleanor Dearman
updated August 15, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Aug. 2025
Because Tibetan antelopes can’t be domesticated, poachers often kill them, extract the fur, and leave the carcasses behind.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 13 Aug. 2025
Five sheep had been killed and investigators found evidence of wolf presence, including wolf tracks and bite marks on carcasses consistent with wolves.
—Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, 20 Mar. 2025
Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Once, a meat processor asked about plugs to keep entrails from sheep carcasses from spilling onto production lines.
—Jia H. Jung, Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2025
The tiny carcasses were discovered during a beach nest survey by the nonprofit Beaches Sea Turtle Patrol, which works to protect the five species of endangered sea turtles found in Florida waters.
—Mark Price, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
The teenager, who spoke in hushed, decorous bursts, had months earlier shot rats near a friend’s camp in Manchac, dressed the carcasses (an intricate process, given the animal’s size), and frozen their haunches.
—Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Just this one pipe yielded the carcasses of hundreds of birds and animals, including kestrels, flickers, bluebirds, and fence lizards that had become trapped over a time period of 50 years.
—Grrlscientist, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Senate Bill 305 says highway drivers must slow and move over for parking enforcement vehicles and animal control crews removing carcasses from roadways.
—Eleanor Dearman
updated August 15, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Aug. 2025
Because Tibetan antelopes can’t be domesticated, poachers often kill them, extract the fur, and leave the carcasses behind.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 13 Aug. 2025
Five sheep had been killed and investigators found evidence of wolf presence, including wolf tracks and bite marks on carcasses consistent with wolves.
—Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, 20 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carcasses
corpses
Noun
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The scene in which Mary Ellen walks through a maze of corpses only to find one of herself?—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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Outside Gaza City's Al-Shifa hospital, white plastic body bags with corpses were laid out on the street.—
Emily Rose,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Carcasses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carcasses. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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