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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mummy
Noun
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Another video showed how the miners were living among dozens of corpses.—
Kate Bartlett,
NPR,
18 Jan. 2025
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The images of Till’s mutilated corpse stayed in young Ali’s mind.—
Mikal Gilmore,
Rolling Stone,
17 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The carnivorous marine isopods typically scavenge carcasses on the seafloor, but may also eat live prey.—
Amanda Kooser,
Forbes,
14 Jan. 2025
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The mute swans’ carcasses were recovered Nov. 26 from Mather Lake at Mather Regional Park by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacramento Bee,
7 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Search and recovery operations are underway in the Eaton and Palisades fire zones using cadaver dogs and grid searches, Luna said.—
Rong-Gong Lin II,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Jan. 2025
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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
Noun
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Overall, the cancer mortality rate declined by 34% between 1991 and 2022 in the United States, but incidents rates continue to rise in common cancers like breast, pancreatic, uterine corpus, melanoma, liver and some oral cancers.—
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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The new study also showed rates of uterine corpus cancer, which affects the uterus's lining, have been rising at the same pace as breast cancer.—
Adrianna Rodriguez,
USA TODAY,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Mummy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mummy. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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