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Recent Examples of mummy
The team studied tattoos with a variety of patterns on more than 100 mummies.
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Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Jan. 2025
The nondestructive technology resulted in thousands of X-rays of the mummies and their coffins.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 9 Nov. 2024
And they were found somewhere kind of surprising: smeared on the heads and necks of several mummies in Northwestern China.
—Popular Science Staff, Popular Science, 6 Nov. 2024
Mammoth mummies are created when an animal is buried by sediments shortly after its death.
—Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024
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Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Jan. 2025
The nondestructive technology resulted in thousands of X-rays of the mummies and their coffins.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 9 Nov. 2024
And they were found somewhere kind of surprising: smeared on the heads and necks of several mummies in Northwestern China.
—Popular Science Staff, Popular Science, 6 Nov. 2024
Mammoth mummies are created when an animal is buried by sediments shortly after its death.
—Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mummy
Noun
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The fungus lures them out of their webs before instigating an untimely death and then uses the spiders’ corpses to spread its spores.—
Taylor Nicioli,
CNN,
14 Feb. 2025
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At the end of that movie, the calcified corpse of a Celestial emerged from the Indian Ocean. And apparently remained there until the events of Brave New World.—
Eliana Dockterman,
TIME,
14 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The 15-foot carcass was covered in bite wounds and stripped of its internal organs, leaving locals and scientists with the same question: What on Earth could have killed it?—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
30 Jan. 2025
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Although the carcasses of many holiday evergreens are discarded with trash bags, others often find a useful, sustainable second life.—
Amelia Nierenberg,
New York Times,
8 Jan. 2025
Noun
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One day, Jennifer, who is working in a pathology lab, is asked to incinerate a fresh cadaver.—
Elizabeth Kolbert,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
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Still, an extensive search involving underwater drones, towable submersible sonar, divers and three K-9 cadaver teams did not turn up Borgwardt's body.—
Claire Reid,
Journal Sentinel,
11 Dec. 2024
Noun
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In that regard, Renaissance architects were much closer in spirit to Renaissance writers than to Renaissance painters: Renaissance writers, too, tried to revive a classical language—mainly Cicero’s Latin—by imitating a corpus of extant ancient sources.—
Mario Carpo,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2025
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In the right light, the social network for professionals is a lavish psychoanalytic corpus, bursting with naked ambition, inspiration, desperation, status-seeking, spiritual yearning, brownnosing, name-dropping, corporate shilling, and self-promotion.—
Anna Wiener,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
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“Mummy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mummy. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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