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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mummies
Noun
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The cemetery has been thrust into the spotlight after a Lancaster County man was accused of harvesting sets of human remains in the middle of the night, hoarding skulls, bones, and corpses, and then offering some of them for sale on his social media accounts.—
Joe Holden,
CBS News,
13 Jan. 2026 -
The limited number of videos that have emerged show hundreds of corpses strewn across the floors of hospitals and morgues.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The historic downtown is full of antique mining relics and quirky businesses.—
Jen Murphy,
Outside,
7 Jan. 2026
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The square Edelman and fellow students dug in, after determining the spot might yield interesting relics, did produce tiles, pieces of ceramic and more.—
Helen I. Bennett,
Hartford Courant,
5 Jan. 2026
Noun
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A number of chemists were initially skeptical of the study, which was based on analyzing brains from a small sample of cadavers.—
F.D. Flam,
Twin Cities,
25 Dec. 2025
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The dummies' design is informed by data taken from living people's bodies, as well as from cadavers put through their own crash tests — and the new female dummy design, crucially, is informed by data from female bodies.—
Camila Domonoske,
NPR,
16 Dec. 2025
Noun
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This is illustrated by Oscar’s daily shooting of wild animals whose carcasses are abandoned, left to rot.—
Oline Cogdill,
Sun Sentinel,
13 Jan. 2026
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The local carcasses may simply be a run-of-the-mill lobster molt.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
7 Jan. 2026
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Police also confirm in court papers that additional bones and eight corpses were discovered in a storage locker.—
Joe Holden,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
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Torney was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, an incurable blood cancer with recurring tumors that eat away at bone marrow, damaging bones and the immune system.—
Vanessa Etienne,
PEOPLE,
9 Jan. 2026
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“Mummies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mummies. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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