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mummy

noun

Definition of mummynext
as in corpse

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Recent Examples of mummy Discovery tales → Scientists found new clues inside the remains of a 5,300-year-old mummy. — Staff, FOXNews.com, 23 June 2026 Tune in to this week’s episode to learn more about this yummy mummy! — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 17 June 2026 Though the mummy shows no signs of damage, this discovery raises concerns about its future safety and conservation. — Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 8 June 2026 Life, uh, finds a way Sarhan and his colleagues also found traces of a soil bacterium called Pseudomonas, which has probably also been with Ötzi at least since death, in nearly all of the samples from the mummy, as well as the soil taken from near his body on the glacier. — ArsTechnica, 6 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for mummy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mummy
  1. corpse
  2. relics
  3. carcass
  4. cadaver
  5. corpus
Noun
  • Eight roach corpses filled a device on the buffet line’s cold holding unit.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 15 Sep. 2026
  • She was also sentenced to five years on the weapons charge, to be served concurrently, and seven years for desecration of a human corpse, to be served consecutively to the Wisconsin sentence.
    — Veronica Fulton, NBC news, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of corpse
Noun
  • In one glass case sits a face shield, a vaccine vial and a large bottle of hand sanitizer — already considered relics of another time.
    — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 7 Sep. 2026
  • The ancient container was discovered among other relics at an underwater site on Old Earth by a team of worker bots.
    — Jim Greer, SPIN, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of relics
Noun
  • Another stool from the collection slots a craggy stone carcass inside a black columnlike shell.
    — Jill Singer, Curbed, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Then, in March of 1992, some forty godwit carcasses were seized from a poacher in New Zealand.
    — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of carcass
Noun
  • On May 23, detectives, along with members of the Kansas City Fire Department and cadaver dogs, obtained consent to search the home on Smart.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 3 Sep. 2026
  • The original medical examiner is dead, so the replacement, Lisa Gavin, examined slides of Shakur’s bloated cadaver with the dispassion of a science teacher dissecting a frog.
    — Jeff Weiss, HollywoodReporter, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of cadaver
Noun
  • However, in response to student queries, WHEEP-3 began to generate not only expected answers based on the training corpus, but also original statements that appeared to offer fresh insights.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Workflow Context, Not Just Data​ The advantage is not a secret corpus waiting to be poured into a model.
    — Ravi Nemalikanti, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
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“Mummy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mummy. Accessed 18 Sep. 2026.

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