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Recent Examples of mummy
One of the mummies was even found with a heart scarab.
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
In Egypt, the disease can be traced back as far as 4000 BCE, with evidence of the disease being found in some mummies.
—Devika Rao, theweek, 31 Oct. 2024
Infrared imaging can help, but in an innovative twist, scientists decided to use lasers that make skin glow ever so faintly, revealing many fine hidden details of tattoos found on 1,200-year-old Peruvian mummies, according to a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
—Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2025
The team studied tattoos with a variety of patterns on more than 100 mummies.
—Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Jan. 2025
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
In Egypt, the disease can be traced back as far as 4000 BCE, with evidence of the disease being found in some mummies.
—Devika Rao, theweek, 31 Oct. 2024
Infrared imaging can help, but in an innovative twist, scientists decided to use lasers that make skin glow ever so faintly, revealing many fine hidden details of tattoos found on 1,200-year-old Peruvian mummies, according to a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
—Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2025
The team studied tattoos with a variety of patterns on more than 100 mummies.
—Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mummy
Noun
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The final moments of the episode see Misty (Christina Ricci) log into the citizen detective message boards to find a surveillance photo of Lottie’s corpse.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
28 Feb. 2025
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Brittany Cole, 37, of Zanesville pleaded guilty Feb. 26 to charges of murder and abuse of a corpse and was immediately sentenced to life in prison, according to a news release from the Muskingum County Prosecutor’s Office.—
Lauren Liebhaber,
Kansas City Star,
27 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Marsh reported the carcasses to the Whiting Parks Department, who then found about 40 birds in the lake’s ice shelf.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Feb. 2025
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In India, vultures were nearly driven to extinction after scavenging on the carcasses of cows that had been given a common painkiller.—
Emily Elconin,
New York Times,
16 Feb. 2025
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For your Minnesota spring reading list, here are two novels that coincidentally involve foster children as well as an adventure with cadaver dogs.—
Mary Ann Grossmann,
Twin Cities,
16 Feb. 2025
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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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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 4 Mar. 2025.
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