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Recent Examples of mummy
Scientists have also detected RNA in the tissue of Ötzi the Iceman, a 5,300-year-old mummy found frozen in the Alps.
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Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 15 Nov. 2025
They aren't usually called mummies, though, but rather Immortals.
—Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Nov. 2025
And at least for our mummies, there’s no DNA, there’s no tissue structure, there’s nothing.
—Reuters, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2025
Non-carving pumpkin ideas Turn your pumpkin into a mummy!
—Cody Godwin, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
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Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 15 Nov. 2025
They aren't usually called mummies, though, but rather Immortals.
—Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Nov. 2025
And at least for our mummies, there’s no DNA, there’s no tissue structure, there’s nothing.
—Reuters, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2025
Non-carving pumpkin ideas Turn your pumpkin into a mummy!
—Cody Godwin, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for mummy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mummy
Noun
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His family spent an agonizing week searching through morgues, hospitals and detention facilities before finally identifying his body among piles of corpses, also shown in the viral footage.—
Emma Bussey,
FOXNews.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Gynae Kendall, 25, was charged Sunday with concealment of a human corpse.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
26 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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Notably, a 2025 study published in Nature Communications observed that baleen whale migration (including gray whales) facilitates the transportation of essential nutrients — from their placenta, carcasses and even their urea — between polar feeding grounds and tropical breeding areas.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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Besides being in the right environment, the carcasses also have to avoid becoming a snack for hungry scavengers like birds and hyenas.—
Adithi Ramakrishnan,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Jan. 2026
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Authorities’ search efforts at the time included cadaver dogs, drones, ATVs and Arkansas State Police aircraft, the sheriff’s office said.—
David Chiu,
PEOPLE,
21 Jan. 2026
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More than 300 students would pack this theater to watch professors dissect human cadavers – mostly bodies of criminals from another town.—
Rick Steves,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Jan. 2026
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Feldman had been asked whether his corpus of work, with its brooding slowness and trembling softness, had something to do with Jewish mourning in the wake of the Holocaust.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
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When meeting intelligence flows into the same corpus as everything else, its signals become amplified.—
Awaneesh Verma,
Fortune,
16 Jan. 2026
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“Mummy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mummy. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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