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Recent Examples of body bag
Other video showed numerous body bags at the hospital amid grieving relatives.
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Abeer Salman, CNN, 20 Oct. 2024
In May, protesters held late-night demonstrations outside the private homes of several university regents, placing fake bloody body bags on their lawns and tacking a list of demands to their front doors, according to a statement from university president Santa J. Ono.
—Jake Tapper, CNN, 9 Dec. 2024
One rescue worker took a tiny body bag and leaned into the pickup truck for the infant’s body.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
Five minutes in a full body bag can lower core body temperature by as much as 1 degree Fahrenheit.
—Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 19 July 2024
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Abeer Salman, CNN, 20 Oct. 2024
In May, protesters held late-night demonstrations outside the private homes of several university regents, placing fake bloody body bags on their lawns and tacking a list of demands to their front doors, according to a statement from university president Santa J. Ono.
—Jake Tapper, CNN, 9 Dec. 2024
One rescue worker took a tiny body bag and leaned into the pickup truck for the infant’s body.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
Five minutes in a full body bag can lower core body temperature by as much as 1 degree Fahrenheit.
—Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 19 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for body bag
Noun
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In the end, this deception will just be another nail in the coffin of legacy media.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
24 Jan. 2025
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At one funeral in Ankara, the coffins of a family of five were lined up at the central Ahmet Hamdi Akseki mosque.—
Reuters,
NBC News,
22 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Its lush grounds include a historic houseboat, shingled windmill and the thousand-year-old Chinese sarcophagus containing some of Mahatma Gandhi’s ashes.—
Deborah Netburn,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Jan. 2025
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That's where Joseph Keil found a skeleton in a sarcophagus filled with water, but for some reason, Keil only removed the cranium from the tomb before sealing it back up.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
Ars Technica,
13 Jan. 2025
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Easton had his wife’s body placed in an open casket.—
Ariane Lange,
Sacramento Bee,
26 Jan. 2025
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The show struggles a bit in places to credibly evoke the relative innocence (or quiet oppression) of the 1970s and there are some moments of cluttered staging that just don’t work; as one example, a big gag involving kids hiding in a coffin kinda needs a casket to work.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Jan. 2025
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The Senate may well have all been murdered on Lucilla’s weird, theater-y funeral bier.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
22 Nov. 2024
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Among the changes, the new rites eliminate the practice of placing the pope on an elevated bier in St. Peter's Basilica for public viewing.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
20 Nov. 2024
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In it, a small baby lies on a tomb of red velvet, her skin and dress a rocky gray (Eguiguren Arte de Hispanomérica, D10) and eye sockets blank, an icy contrast to the fresh roses and wildflowers with which she is adorned.—
Walker Mimms,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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On the thirteenth-century tomb of Eleanor of Aquitaine, she is shown wide awake and reading, while her dull and kingly husband sleeps for all eternity.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The red button, hidden in a wooden box and was used by Trump during his first term, was again spotted on the desk at the Oval Office after Trump was sworn in a week ago, The Wall Street Journal reported.—
Peter Burke,
Fox News,
27 Jan. 2025
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Then, in September 2023, Swift made her first appearance at a Chiefs game when she was spotted in a box with Kelce's mother, Donna Kelce.—
Joel Thayer,
Newsweek,
27 Jan. 2025
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While pulling off the diamond heist of a lifetime, Wilson and Nick become friends by breaking into the most secure vaults in Nice, France’s World Diamond district.—
Malik Peay,
Essence,
17 Jan. 2025
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Her husband Robert Sims (Common) leads her and their son to the vault, but the all-knowing voice says only Camille can stay—despite Sims’ endless dedication to the silo, he is not deemed the best person to be the next head of IT.—
Barry Levitt,
TIME,
17 Jan. 2025
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“Body bag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/body%20bag. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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