body bag
noun
: a large zippered bag (as of rubber or vinyl) in which a human corpse is placed especially for transportation
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Plot details are being kept in the body bag, but it is being described as being partly inspired by the Real Housewives franchise, which focuses on the soap operatic and over-the-top theatrics of well-to-do women in areas ranging from Orange County to Miami to Atlanta.
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Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2024
When the coroner unzips the body bag, Clarke crumbles to the ground, but Margaret confirms that the body isn’t Gus, marking perhaps the most overt schism between the couple.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2024
There would be eight body bags on the ground and no one would have a problem with it.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 2 Feb. 2024
Staggering death tolls and nightmarish images of body bags, overwhelmed hospitals, and freezer morgues have stirred little sense of unity or common purpose.
—Amy Chua, Foreign Affairs, 1 June 2020
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Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2024
When the coroner unzips the body bag, Clarke crumbles to the ground, but Margaret confirms that the body isn’t Gus, marking perhaps the most overt schism between the couple.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2024
There would be eight body bags on the ground and no one would have a problem with it.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 2 Feb. 2024
Staggering death tolls and nightmarish images of body bags, overwhelmed hospitals, and freezer morgues have stirred little sense of unity or common purpose.
—Amy Chua, Foreign Affairs, 1 June 2020
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“Body bag.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/body%20bag. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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