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Highlights At The British Museum From ancient Egyptian mummies to Assyrian reliefs and intricate artifacts from Indigenous cultures around the world, the museum's vast collection spans more than two million years of history.
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David Nikel, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Even though in the past, many researchers and non-researchers alike would unwrap Egyptian mummies for research and non-research purposes.
—Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2025
According to the Associated Press, which first reported on the study, researchers from the University College London and the University of Ljubljana set out to investigate the aromas emitted by 5,000-year-old Egyptian mummies stored at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
—Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 14 Feb. 2025
Watch on Deadline That play, written with the prisoners by professional director Brent Buell, had everything from zombie mummies to Freddy Krueger.
—Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 21 Nov. 2024
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David Nikel, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Even though in the past, many researchers and non-researchers alike would unwrap Egyptian mummies for research and non-research purposes.
—Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2025
According to the Associated Press, which first reported on the study, researchers from the University College London and the University of Ljubljana set out to investigate the aromas emitted by 5,000-year-old Egyptian mummies stored at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
—Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 14 Feb. 2025
Watch on Deadline That play, written with the prisoners by professional director Brent Buell, had everything from zombie mummies to Freddy Krueger.
—Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 21 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mummy
Noun
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She is charged with abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence, and concealing the birth of an infant, the Lexington Police Department said in a news release.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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The scene in which Mary Ellen walks through a maze of corpses only to find one of herself?—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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But the Turkish Riviera is ripe with relics and ancient architecture to uncover.—
Kaitlyn McInnis,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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White dwarfs — the superdense, slowly cooling embers left behind when stars like our sun die — are usually quiet cosmic relics.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
29 Aug. 2025
Noun
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With a tractor supplied by a nearby farmer, the carcass was transported to a secure location.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
2 Sep. 2025
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Once, a meat processor asked about plugs to keep entrails from sheep carcasses from spilling onto production lines.—
Jia H. Jung,
Mercury News,
31 Aug. 2025
Noun
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One of the cadaver dogs got a hit on the bathroom.—
KC Baker,
People.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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Peebles added that cadaver dogs deployed to the scene did not find any hits, and that 90% of the homes in the area were red-tagged, meaning that residents are prohibited from entering them due to damage.—
James Powel,
USA Today,
27 Aug. 2025
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Between 1966 and 1970, Time-Life released its Library of Art special collection, a corpus of twenty-eight volumes, introduced (as per usual) one at a time.—
Jan Tumlir,
Artforum,
1 Sep. 2025
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Because public datasets rarely cover machine-shop edge cases, Lee’s group has spent years capturing high-resolution images of cutting tools, gathering sensor streams from 3-D printers and scanning operator manuals into a searchable corpus.—
Ron Schmelzer,
Forbes.com,
18 July 2025
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“Mummy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mummy. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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