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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mummies
Noun
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One concern of mine was corpses.—
Zach Helfand,
New Yorker,
16 June 2026 -
On the Halloween after the crash, Shirilla and her friends dressed as corpses.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
28 May 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
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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Scientists identified one of the modern cadavers as a minke whale, or Balaenoptera acutorostrata, that measured about 10 feet (3 meters) long.—
Mindy Weisberger,
CNN Money,
12 June 2026
Noun
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Most flies start as larvae or maggots that feed on dead carcasses.—
Kara Finnstrom,
CBS News,
18 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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That revealed that some 21 of the 39 white-grayish bones in Stratum 10 and all 32 from the layer below had been burned.—
Sahas Mehra,
Scientific American,
19 June 2026
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Keep it simple with the Y-bones.—
Alex Robinson,
Outdoor Life,
18 June 2026
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“Mummies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mummies. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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