mummy

noun

Definition of mummynext
as in corpse

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Recent Examples of mummy The movie’s globe-trotting opening sequence features pirates, outlaws and a mummy used as toilet paper. — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 1 July 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 Discovery tales → Scientists found new clues inside the remains of a 5,300-year-old mummy. — Staff, FOXNews.com, 23 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
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  1. corpse
  2. relics
  3. carcass
  4. cadaver
  5. corpus
Noun
  • Private equity profits by killing companies to sell their corpses.
    — Robert Niles, Oc Register, 7 July 2026
  • Watkins has been charged with a felony count of delivery of narcotics and a misdemeanor count of abuse of a corpse.
    — Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 30 June 2026
Definition of corpse
Noun
  • Peter once ruled the small principality, and the saints’ relics rest there.
    — Diana Dukhanova, The Conversation, 6 July 2026
  • But preservationists wonder how many of the remaining relics of Orlando’s past will remain standing.
    — Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 July 2026
Definition of relics
Noun
  • Nearby Elephant Butte Lake, a draw for outdoorsy tourists, is so severely drought-depleted that sunbaked fish carcasses line its shores.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026
  • Tick Free Martha’s Vineyard plans to build a processing facility for the carcasses; the meat, most of it donated to a local food pantry, is in high demand.
    — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
Definition of carcass
Noun
  • Authorities searched extensively for Delphine’s remains, deploying drones, cadaver dogs, divers and search teams, but her body was never found.
    — Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 6 July 2026
  • Battalion Chief Michael Hopkins said Thursday that the department had shared the information about the cadaver dog with the lead investigators before leaving the scene after the fire.
    — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 26 June 2026
Definition of cadaver
Noun
  • Trillions of words, sitting in plain sight, a corpus humanity spent decades writing without meaning to.
    — Robert J. Szczerba, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • After almost five months at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center, Jacob's mother was released based on a habeas corpus petition in May.
    — Claudia Boyd-Barrett, CBS News, 18 June 2026
Definition of corpus

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“Mummy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mummy. Accessed 10 Jul. 2026.

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