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Recent Examples of mummy
Woolly rhino fossils are abundant, but their mummies are exceedingly rare.
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Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 17 Sep. 2024
Inside a historic Walker's Point home, Airbnb visitors can spend the night with Egyptian mummies.
—Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2024
About 20 years ago, researchers discovered three ancient mummies in China.
—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
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Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 17 Sep. 2024
Inside a historic Walker's Point home, Airbnb visitors can spend the night with Egyptian mummies.
—Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2024
About 20 years ago, researchers discovered three ancient mummies in China.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mummy
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The navy hoped the corpses would disappear without a trace, but in at least 65 cases bodies washed onto beaches in Argentina and Uruguay.Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
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However, its forces are made up of jihadist militants, who were shown on video committing a slew of atrocities, including beheadings and the desecration of corpses during their lightning offensive that led to Assad’s collapse.Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 11 Dec. 2024
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Stock: Take the turkey carcass, place in a large stock pot, and fill with water to cover.Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 29 Nov. 2024
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After carving and picking off all the meat, don't toss that turkey carcass.Kelly Brant, arkansasonline.com, 26 Nov. 2024
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Crews scoured the lake for weeks using divers, drones, sonar and cadaver K-9s, officials said.Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 21 Nov. 2024
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From there, Leno spent nine days at Grossman Burn Center in West Hills, Calif., recovering and undergoing two skin-grafting surgeries — one of which involved human cadaver skin, and the other pig intestine.Lauren Huff, EW.com, 20 Nov. 2024
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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
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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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“Mummy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mummy. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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