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Recent Examples of mummy
The tomb’s burial chambers, dated to 2400 BC, contain 23 human mummies and more than 30 animal mummies.
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Ashley Strickland, CNN, 9 Nov. 2024
This is largely thanks to the materials applied to the mummies, which included scented waxes, coniferous resins and oils made from pine, cedar, and juniper, as well as gum resins such as frankincense and myrrh.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 Feb. 2025
The new study, led by scientists at University College London (UCL) and the University of Ljubljana, involved analyzing samples of air surrounding nine mummies using gas chromatographs and mass spectrometers.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 13 Feb. 2025
While such body art works can provide insights into ancient cultures, tattoos are known to fade and bleed over time—a process compounded in mummies by the decay of the body.
—John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
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Ashley Strickland, CNN, 9 Nov. 2024
This is largely thanks to the materials applied to the mummies, which included scented waxes, coniferous resins and oils made from pine, cedar, and juniper, as well as gum resins such as frankincense and myrrh.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 Feb. 2025
The new study, led by scientists at University College London (UCL) and the University of Ljubljana, involved analyzing samples of air surrounding nine mummies using gas chromatographs and mass spectrometers.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 13 Feb. 2025
While such body art works can provide insights into ancient cultures, tattoos are known to fade and bleed over time—a process compounded in mummies by the decay of the body.
—John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mummy
Noun
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Riya awakens at the beginning with a nasty gash to her temple, having forgotten all that happened, but quickly clued into the still-volatile situation by the corpses of three of her fellow crew members: Kevin (Beulah Koale), Adhi (Iko Uwais) and Davis (Flying Lotus).—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
12 Mar. 2025
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For the next 65 years, McCurdy’s corpse bounced around in the freak show Netherworld.—
Mara Bovsun,
New York Daily News,
8 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Receding ice during spring thaw can free carcasses to float to the surface or the shoreline.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
14 Mar. 2025
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Prehistoric humans had used the site for roughly 300 years as a place to butcher and process animal carcasses.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
10 Mar. 2025
Noun
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An extensive search was done over the weekend, including cadaver dogs, drones, and a dive team, but no additional clues turned up, authorities said.—
Noelle Alviz-Gransee,
Kansas City Star,
10 Mar. 2025
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In the earliest days of Western science, dissection of both animals and human cadavers laid the groundwork for modern surgery and medicine.—
Celia Ford,
Vox,
3 Mar. 2025
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The academic corpus treats market timing like a kind of mirage - achievable in theory but not in practice.—
Steven Desmyter,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
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The thundering poet termed the result uninspired and banal, so the other professor went into Dickinson’s 1,800-poem corpus, retrieved an obscure quatrain and presented it to the poet, who called the result banal and uninspired.—
David Galef,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Feb. 2025
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