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Recent Examples of corpsesThe scene in which Mary Ellen walks through a maze of corpses only to find one of herself?—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025 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 Many of the other Avengers turn into brain-eating corpses, such as Iron Man, Doctor Strange, Wong, Hawkeye, Falcon and Wanda Maximoff.—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025 Turtle corpses stopped washing ashore.—Suwanna Gauntlett Upjohn, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025 Victor fine-tunes his research, and eventually succeeds in bringing to life a patchwork man of superhuman strength, put together with body parts plucked from corpses left behind on a battlefield.—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 30 Aug. 2025 Someone had to have dug the pit, stacked the corpses, bulldozed over the mass graves.—Seema Jilani
august 29, Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 2025 Ed Gein confessed to killing two women in the 1950s and was accused of digging up corpses and making keepsakes out of human body parts, with his crimes serving as the inspiration for Hollywood horror movies like Psycho and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 27 Aug. 2025 Just last year, the Nepalese government and local Sherpas reportedly removed 24,000 pounds of trash and frozen corpses from the mountain’s slopes.—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for corpses
carcasses
Noun
Blue sharks are known to scavenge on basking shark carcasses, according to John Chisholm, an adjunct scientist at the New England Aquarium.
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Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
7 Sep. 2025
Their decaying carcasses led to the rapid deterioration of water quality and an explosion of harmful bacteria, researchers said.
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Lauren Liebhaber
September 5,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep. 2025
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