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Recent Examples of mummy
The Bowers has featured major exhibits, including Egyptian mummies and China’s Terracotta Warriors.
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Amy Bentley, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
See it The mummies were created by the Dani and Pumo people who live in the highlands of the Indonesia side of Papua, according to the study.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 15 Sep. 2025
Since before the days of mummies in Ancient Egypt, human burial sites have been largely seen as sacred.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 29 Aug. 2025
While installing new pipes in Lima, Peru, utility workers stumbled upon a pre-Inca burial: a mummy of a child between ages 10 and 15, who had been resting undisturbed for 1,000 years.
—Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2025
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Amy Bentley, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
See it The mummies were created by the Dani and Pumo people who live in the highlands of the Indonesia side of Papua, according to the study.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 15 Sep. 2025
Since before the days of mummies in Ancient Egypt, human burial sites have been largely seen as sacred.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 29 Aug. 2025
While installing new pipes in Lima, Peru, utility workers stumbled upon a pre-Inca burial: a mummy of a child between ages 10 and 15, who had been resting undisturbed for 1,000 years.
—Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mummy
Noun
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Israel wiped out entire cities with nothing left but an abundance of rubble mixed with thousands of corpses stuck underneath.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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And now one of those corpses could soon be Evelyn’s.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
9 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Their jaws dropped at the troves of historic artifacts and country music relics laid out before them.—
Laura L. Davis,
Nashville Tennessean,
10 Nov. 2025
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Explore the relics of the neighborhood that raised the brothers who penned and composed the Black National Anthem, or celebrate the preservation of African heritage at the annual Gullah Geechee Festival.—
Essence,
Essence,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Grab them from the bottom, and a cloud of fruit flies and stink rises from the carcass turning to mush in your hands.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
31 Oct. 2025
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These areas are under carcass transportation and baiting restrictions to monitor and contain CWD, officials said.—
Caroline Neal,
Louisville Courier Journal,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Hours after Dundee’s Professor Iris Grunwald performed the world’s first remote thrombectomy on a human cadaver, another milestone followed.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Nov. 2025
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The coroner’s office confirmed those remains were also human, and a cadaver dog from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department was deployed to search the surrounding coastline.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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The book surveys Kant’s huge corpus, including his work on metaphysics, epistemology, nature, religion, politics, and international relations.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
21 Oct. 2025
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As a result, Peyton and Osuna have begun filing more habeas-corpus cases, which require them to convince a judge that their clients have been unlawfully detained.—
Geraldo Cadava,
New Yorker,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Mummy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mummy. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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