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Recent Examples of corpse
Portman plays a desperate, well, gallerist looking to offload a corpse as art during Miami’s annual poser-heavy Art Basel conference.
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Brent Lang, Variety, 21 Jan. 2026
White dwarfs are the type of stellar corpses that are left behind when stars with similar masses as the sun run out of hydrogen in their cores and can no longer generate the energy to support themselves against the inward push of their own gravity.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 Jan. 2026
Someone used Grok, the model developed by Elon Musk‘s xAI and integrated into his social platform X, to deepfake Good’s bloodied corpse in a bikini.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2026
In desert regions, natural mummification is common due to the dry conditions where fungi and bacteria can’t thrive on a decomposing corpse.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 Jan. 2026
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Brent Lang, Variety, 21 Jan. 2026
White dwarfs are the type of stellar corpses that are left behind when stars with similar masses as the sun run out of hydrogen in their cores and can no longer generate the energy to support themselves against the inward push of their own gravity.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 Jan. 2026
Someone used Grok, the model developed by Elon Musk‘s xAI and integrated into his social platform X, to deepfake Good’s bloodied corpse in a bikini.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2026
In desert regions, natural mummification is common due to the dry conditions where fungi and bacteria can’t thrive on a decomposing corpse.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for corpse
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Notably, a 2025 study published in Nature Communications observed that baleen whale migration (including gray whales) facilitates the transportation of essential nutrients — from their placenta, carcasses and even their urea — between polar feeding grounds and tropical breeding areas.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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Besides being in the right environment, the carcasses also have to avoid becoming a snack for hungry scavengers like birds and hyenas.—
Adithi Ramakrishnan,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Authorities’ search efforts at the time included cadaver dogs, drones, ATVs and Arkansas State Police aircraft, the sheriff’s office said.—
David Chiu,
PEOPLE,
21 Jan. 2026
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More than 300 students would pack this theater to watch professors dissect human cadavers – mostly bodies of criminals from another town.—
Rick Steves,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The historic downtown is full of antique mining relics and quirky businesses.—
Jen Murphy,
Outside,
7 Jan. 2026
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The square Edelman and fellow students dug in, after determining the spot might yield interesting relics, did produce tiles, pieces of ceramic and more.—
Helen I. Bennett,
Hartford Courant,
5 Jan. 2026
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“Corpse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corpse. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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