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Recent Examples of carcass
The children had reportedly eaten a bat carcass before the onset of their symptoms.
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Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 25 Feb. 2025
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
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
Wolves provide carcasses for scavengers like ravens, which, in turn, learn to follow wolf howls for food opportunities.
—Jenny Lehmann, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
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Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 25 Feb. 2025
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
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
Wolves provide carcasses for scavengers like ravens, which, in turn, learn to follow wolf howls for food opportunities.
—Jenny Lehmann, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for carcass
corpse
Noun
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Look down and see the five little roach corpses and six live roaches on the ground in the bar and the other three on the ground in kitchen storage.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
9 May 2025
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Every morning, prisoners lined up for inspection alongside the corpses of those who had died in the night heaped in a pile next to them.—
Paul Hockenos,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 May 2025
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“Carcass.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carcass. Accessed 18 May. 2025.
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