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mummies

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plural of mummy

as in corpses

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Private equity profits by killing companies to sell their corpses.

— Robert Niles, Oc Register, 7 July 2026
The family’s ordeal worsened Sunday when her brother-in-law found the body of his mother, Rosa María Díaz de Rodríguez, among a pile of corpses.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 29 June 2026

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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
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

Definition of cadavers

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Some packs were now drawn to areas now heavy with livestock, killing cattle and sheep or scavenging upon carcasses of animals that had died.

— Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 8 July 2026
In the spring of 2023, as epic winter snows melted, horse carcasses emerged along the shores of South Tufa and nearby Navy Beach.

— Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026

Definition of carcasses

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That report, released in 2021, found hair, bones and other indications of cattle in 32% of wolf scat samples collected during the summers of 2017, 2018 and 2019, compared to 51% from deer.

— Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 8 July 2026
For decades, some museums interpreted the law as applying to human bones but not necessarily hair, despite protests from Native groups.

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 8 July 2026

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