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About 20 years ago, researchers discovered three ancient mummies in China.
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Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2024
Scientists retrieved ancient kefir cheese from Tarim Basin mummies dating back 3,500 years from the Xiaohe cemetery located in Xinjiang, Western China.
—Ashley J. Dimella Fox News, Fox News, 26 Sep. 2024
Through phylogenetic research, the scientists traced the mummies' cheese microorganisms as being most closely related to the Tibetan strain.
—New Atlas, 25 Sep. 2024
The morsels, buried with mummies, are 3,600 years old.
—Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 30 Sep. 2024
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Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2024
Scientists retrieved ancient kefir cheese from Tarim Basin mummies dating back 3,500 years from the Xiaohe cemetery located in Xinjiang, Western China.
—Ashley J. Dimella Fox News, Fox News, 26 Sep. 2024
Through phylogenetic research, the scientists traced the mummies' cheese microorganisms as being most closely related to the Tibetan strain.
—New Atlas, 25 Sep. 2024
The morsels, buried with mummies, are 3,600 years old.
—Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 30 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mummy
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Case closed, with what’s left of Sofia’s car and Sal Maroni’s whole corpse lying in the rubble for good measure.Andy Andersen, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
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The sight of Till’s mutilated and decomposed corpse at his open-casket funeral galvanized the civil-rights movement.Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
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Staff members from the Marine Mammal Stranding Center examine a common dolphin carcass that appears to have been butchered.Antonio Planas, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2024
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The Mexican researchers knew from research in other countries that successful detection with these techniques depends, in part, on being able to recognize how carcasses (and their spectral images) change in different soils and climates.Geraldine Castro, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2024
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Eight hours a day, Hampton, Briggs and her dogs paddled downstream, picking through the river’s tributaries and storm detritus, as the cadaver dogs perched on the raft’s bow, following scents.Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
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The cadaver dogs alerted detectives to freshly disturbed soil in the backyard.Landon Mion, Fox News, 19 Oct. 2024
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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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The size and breadth of these corpora feed into the ability of foundation models to serve multiple downstream tasks.Jenna Wiens, STAT, 25 Aug. 2023
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“Mummy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mummy. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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