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Recent Examples of corpse
When all of the useful parts have been claimed from a corpse, industrial scavengers tug the remains to a cement pad, where excavators tear the vessel into bits of metal, Petty explained.
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Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026
The corpse stink was, at first, slightly too repulsive to unleash on the Field Museum’s unsuspecting visitors, so it was toned down slightly.
—Rj MacKenzie, Popular Science, 11 June 2026
His spectral like figure seems to rise from the corpse, approaching the camera’s lens before vanishing.
—Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 11 June 2026
In Episode 4, Twila and Bea need to retrieve a gun and a passport from the corpse of a contact who fell off a bridge into the river.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 11 June 2026
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Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026
The corpse stink was, at first, slightly too repulsive to unleash on the Field Museum’s unsuspecting visitors, so it was toned down slightly.
—Rj MacKenzie, Popular Science, 11 June 2026
His spectral like figure seems to rise from the corpse, approaching the camera’s lens before vanishing.
—Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 11 June 2026
In Episode 4, Twila and Bea need to retrieve a gun and a passport from the corpse of a contact who fell off a bridge into the river.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 11 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for corpse
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In images shared by HM Coastguard Canvey, the bluish-gray carcass appears to have scarring along its underside, with no clear indication of its cause of death.—
Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
15 June 2026
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Feeding and living on the carcasses were myriad creatures, large and small, including sea cucumbers, squat lobsters and saltwater clams.—
Adithi Ramakrishnan,
Los Angeles Times,
14 June 2026
Noun
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The woodcut birth figures contained in these books were not images drawn from observation—pregnant cadavers for anatomical drawing were hard to come by—but were instead abstracted diagrams of the chaotic diversity of laboring bodies.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 June 2026
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Lamb Avgerinos, a 33-year-old dog handler, drove 18 hours from Georgia with four of his cadaver dogs piled into his truck.—
Karen Valby,
Vanity Fair,
16 June 2026
Noun
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But the First Amendment is more than a few eloquent phrases about free speech, and its principles are far from historical relics.—
Nicole Russell,
USA Today,
18 June 2026
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Even the rarest materials—Basra pearls, Golconda diamonds—get new life in a striking pair of earrings from Santi that mimic Maharaja ornamentation without feeling like ancient relics.—
Jill Newman,
Robb Report,
18 June 2026
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“Corpse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corpse. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
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