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Recent Examples of corpses
The street in front of her building was littered with rubble and corpses.
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James Verini, The Atlantic, 12 May 2026
They'd be heralded not by rippling explosions or flash frozen corpses floating against a tapestry of stars, but instead by oxygen, almost imperceptibly slipping away or radiation slowly accumulating in our cells over years.
—Alan Bradley, Space.com, 8 May 2026
Of the three roach corpses in the kitchen, one roach died on top of a metal tray inside the three-compartment sink.
—David J. Neal
may 8, Miami Herald, 8 May 2026
His body languished for years inside the room-temperature building in Penrose with other corpses before their discovery.
—ABC News, 23 Apr. 2026
The book is strewn with bloody corpses.
—Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2026
More specifically — and without spoiling a story that piles the twists as high as the corpses — Pine's an ex-British soldier pulled from his porter duties and recruited to surveil a ruthless arms dealer, Richard Roper (Hugh Laurie) staying at the hotel.
—Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Apr. 2026
Charred corpses are being retrieved from the rubble.
—Hannah Jocelyn, New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2026
Living corpses returning from war.
—Literary Hub, 7 Apr. 2026
James Verini, The Atlantic, 12 May 2026
They'd be heralded not by rippling explosions or flash frozen corpses floating against a tapestry of stars, but instead by oxygen, almost imperceptibly slipping away or radiation slowly accumulating in our cells over years.
—Alan Bradley, Space.com, 8 May 2026
Of the three roach corpses in the kitchen, one roach died on top of a metal tray inside the three-compartment sink.
—David J. Neal
may 8, Miami Herald, 8 May 2026
His body languished for years inside the room-temperature building in Penrose with other corpses before their discovery.
—ABC News, 23 Apr. 2026
The book is strewn with bloody corpses.
—Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2026
More specifically — and without spoiling a story that piles the twists as high as the corpses — Pine's an ex-British soldier pulled from his porter duties and recruited to surveil a ruthless arms dealer, Richard Roper (Hugh Laurie) staying at the hotel.
—Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Apr. 2026
Charred corpses are being retrieved from the rubble.
—Hannah Jocelyn, New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2026
Living corpses returning from war.
—Literary Hub, 7 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for corpses
carcasses
Noun
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Almost a dozen goat carcasses lie nearby.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
13 May 2026
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While not yet similar event occurred just two years ago in Australia during a marine heat wave, when researchers estimated more than 600,000 seabirds died, with most never recorded in beach counts because carcasses often never reach shore.—
Brandi D. Addison,
USA Today,
12 May 2026
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“Corpses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corpses. Accessed 19 May. 2026.
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