mummy

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Recent Examples of mummy The Denver Museum of Nature & Science, known for its kid-friendly exhibits on mummies, space, dinosaurs, gems and minerals, offers one of the city’s best views of the mountains from its giant rear windows. Steve Knopper, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2024 The opening scene does this extremely literally by revealing that the Salem Seven hunting Agatha are, in fact, the otherworldly offspring of the witches Agatha turned into mummies. Caroline Framke, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2024 Get The Recipe 10 of 25 Oreo Cookie Balls These Oreo cookie balls resemble mummies, and that's a good enough reason to serve them up at your Halloween party. Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 27 Oct. 2024 Woolly rhino fossils are abundant, but their mummies are exceedingly rare. Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 17 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for mummy 
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Noun
  • The huge kind that gnaw on zombie corpses in sewers.
    Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 10 Jan. 2025
  • In March, Pauley was sentenced to two years of probation after pleading guilty to abuse of a corpse, McClatchy News previously reported.
    Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 7 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Law enforcement is asking for the public's help in determining who left four, mangled deer carcasses on a Madison County road.
    NWA Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Dowdle is a fringe RB2, especially if the carcass of Ezekiel Elliott is stealing goal-line carries.
    Jake Ciely, The Athletic, 25 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Search and recovery operations are underway in both the Eaton and Palisades fire zones using cadaver dogs and grid searches, L.A. County Sheriff Robert Luna said at a Sunday afternoon news conference.
    Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2025
  • These fires are increasingly deadly: Local officials announced the death roll has risen 24 people and said that number may increase as cadaver dogs search impacted areas in coming days.
    Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The two worlds of his corpus, then, ought not to be understood as an absolute and necessary dichotomy between the sensory and the body, on the one hand, and the spiritual and moral, on the other.
    Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 4 Dec. 2024
  • The exhibition lays claim to the body as the superintending conceit of Warhol’s corpus—an argument often strained by inclusions here of the Hammer & Sickle (1976) works or allusions to the film Sleep (1964).
    Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 4 Oct. 2024

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“Mummy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mummy. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.

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