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Recent Examples of corpses
The scene in which Mary Ellen walks through a maze of corpses only to find one of herself?
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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
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
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The years slowly moved away from us, its silence uncanny, but the smell of carcasses was unfathomable.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Sep. 2025
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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
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“Corpses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corpses. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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