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mummies

noun

plural of mummy

as in corpses

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The village’s daily rhythms are ordered by the passing trains—until a train arrives from Pakistan loaded with the corpses of Sikh refugees, and the community is made to cremate the dead.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026
Of course, corpses don’t really look like Madeline did, after she’d been made up.

— John Semley, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026

Definition of corpses

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The recent release of 2026 Topps Chrome Baseball features Back-to-Back Gold Logoman patch autographed one-of-a-kind cards of Ohtani and Judge, taking those relics from jerseys worn in each of their 2024 and 2025 MVP seasons.

— Larry Holder, New York Times, 27 July 2026
Without a mentor to guide him, Aang spends his spare time hunting for Air Nomad relics in an attempt to connect with his ancestry.

— Alison Herman, Variety, 24 July 2026

Definition of relics

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For medical students, practicing with real cadavers would remain important.

— Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 16 July 2026
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

Definition of cadavers

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Public meetings were surrounded by people waving signs with photos of bloody bear carcasses.

— Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2026
Von Lyskowski and his workers sprayed some trees with nematodes, a parasitic worm that kills caterpillars and reproduces inside their carcasses.

— Ben Crair, New Yorker, 31 July 2026

Definition of carcasses

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Authorities said the remains included bones believed to belong to four newborns and the decomposing body of a fifth.

— Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 29 July 2026
The physical pain — broken bones and surgeries and bullets and getting beat up and cut — has never really bothered me.

— Rachel DeSantis, PEOPLE, 28 July 2026

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