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Recent Examples of mummy
Their diets are reasonably well known due to the findings in the digestive tracts of mammoth mummies.
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Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
The brand has been able to sell high-price point showpieces, over $1,000, in big quantities thanks to its distinctive aesthetic, which has attracted a dedicated following with fashion influencers, well-to-do career women and yummy mummies in the mix.
—Tianwei Zhang, WWD, 25 Mar. 2025
The British Museum is renowned for its impressive collection of mummies and funerary objects, many of which are on public display.
—David Nikel, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
Turkish officials’ most recent bust focused on a single mummy.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 13 Mar. 2025
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Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
The brand has been able to sell high-price point showpieces, over $1,000, in big quantities thanks to its distinctive aesthetic, which has attracted a dedicated following with fashion influencers, well-to-do career women and yummy mummies in the mix.
—Tianwei Zhang, WWD, 25 Mar. 2025
The British Museum is renowned for its impressive collection of mummies and funerary objects, many of which are on public display.
—David Nikel, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
Turkish officials’ most recent bust focused on a single mummy.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 13 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mummy
Noun
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They’ve been reduced to a pile of corpses, even young Constance.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
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The signing corpse in question here is that of a real-life outlaw, a man vividly named Elmer McCurdy, born in Maine in 1880 and variously a plumber, lead miner and boozer who decided that robbing banks and trains was a more lucrative way to pay for his whisky.—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
27 Apr. 2025
Noun
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In 2016, a sudden outbreak of anthrax in the Yamal Peninsula — linked to the thawed carcass of an infected reindeer — left dozens ill and killed a child.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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The team also recovered animal bones with cut marks and stone tools used to butcher carcasses from the site.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN,
12 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Detectives swept the area with cadaver dogs to search for additional human remains.—
Ishani Desai,
Sacbee.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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Each season also starts with a flashforward glimpse of a corpse, the question of course being who is the cadaver and more importantly who made it.—
Joe Joyce,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
14 Mar. 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 5 May. 2025.
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