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Recent Examples of mummy
Many of the mummies also emanated hints of smoke, mold, flowers and dust, among other odors.
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Sarah Everts, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025
There is a certain internal logic to making mummies smell good.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025
The beast’s remains were originally excavated in 1914 during an expedition to Bahariya Oasis, a site in Egypt’s western desert known for yielding additional dinosaur bones, as well as ancient mummies and architectural treasures.
—Leslie Katz, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Their diets are reasonably well known due to the findings in the digestive tracts of mammoth mummies.
—Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
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Sarah Everts, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025
There is a certain internal logic to making mummies smell good.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025
The beast’s remains were originally excavated in 1914 during an expedition to Bahariya Oasis, a site in Egypt’s western desert known for yielding additional dinosaur bones, as well as ancient mummies and architectural treasures.
—Leslie Katz, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Their diets are reasonably well known due to the findings in the digestive tracts of mammoth mummies.
—Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mummy
Noun
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Look down and see the five little roach corpses and six live roaches on the ground in the bar and the other three on the ground in kitchen storage.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
9 May 2025
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Every morning, prisoners lined up for inspection alongside the corpses of those who had died in the night heaped in a pile next to them.—
Paul Hockenos,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 May 2025
Noun
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Alarmed animal lovers are demanding answers as dead birds repeatedly plummet from the sky, with the carcasses falling on a quiet residential street.—
Chloe Mayer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 May 2025
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Grizzly 1058 had likely been dead for three to seven days, based on the fact that roughly 20 percent of the carcass had been scavenged, per the Jackson Hole News & Guide.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
9 May 2025
Noun
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The police department called in cadaver dogs to search the canal, which led directly into the San Francisco bay.—
Monica Mercuri,
Forbes.com,
6 May 2025
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Sanders said a second search was conducted on April 8, in which two out of the three cadaver dogs indicated that human remains were likely present at the shed.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The academic corpus treats market timing like a kind of mirage - achievable in theory but not in practice.—
Steven Desmyter,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
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The thundering poet termed the result uninspired and banal, so the other professor went into Dickinson’s 1,800-poem corpus, retrieved an obscure quatrain and presented it to the poet, who called the result banal and uninspired.—
David Galef,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Feb. 2025
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“Mummy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mummy. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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