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mummies

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plural of mummy

as in corpses

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And just over a year after that, the Morgans landed back in the news after authorities found 56 decomposing corpses inside another one of their businesses, South Deering’s South Chicago Chapel.

— Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2026
Gein murdered at least two women, as well as illegally exhumed and mutilated multiple corpses, in the 1940s and 1950s.

— Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of corpses

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Simonian is believed to have smuggled Egyptian relics to institutions that include the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Louvre Abu Dhabi for a collective sum of $64 million.

— News Desk, Artforum, 26 Aug. 2026
In Freeport, Allen has built the Bahamas Maritime Museum, where relics are cataloged, conserved, and displayed, creating local jobs and drawing tourists.

— Brett Berk, Robb Report, 22 Aug. 2026

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In relation to the lawsuits, the cadavers that had been donated had already been used for research and teaching purposes.

— Saleen Martin, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026
Maclean admitted to buying remains from Lodge that had been stolen from Harvard Medical School and entering the morgue to examine cadavers, the DOJ said.

— Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of cadavers

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The practice of cutting fins off live sharks and throwing the carcasses back into the sea is banned in much of the Pacific Ocean, but persists due to demand in East and Southeast Asia.

— CBS News, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026
Though researchers have observed evidence of humans hunting large megafauna in later periods, the discovery suggests that early humans processed elephant carcasses more systematically.

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of carcasses

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This is key for women in midlife because resistance training, or pushing against something, builds and preserves strong bones and muscles.

— Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 26 Aug. 2026
Treatment huts are—of course—lovely, and my massage was performed by an incredible therapist who clicked my bones in all the right places and left me feeling light as air.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Aug. 2026

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