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Recent Examples of body bag
There appeared to be a body bag in the street.
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Hannah Kirby, jsonline.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Carry bags that close, wear a cross-body bag, keep all zippers closed, don’t flash cash or jewelry.
—Ashley J. Dimella, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Especially when top Big Ten teams like 2023 Michigan, 2024 Ohio State and 2025 Penn State play three body bags out of conference.
—Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 30 July 2025
Her body was in her Walnut Hills apartment for several days before Brown obtained a body bag and tried to throw her body into the river, prosecutors said.
—Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 30 July 2025
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Hannah Kirby, jsonline.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Carry bags that close, wear a cross-body bag, keep all zippers closed, don’t flash cash or jewelry.
—Ashley J. Dimella, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Especially when top Big Ten teams like 2023 Michigan, 2024 Ohio State and 2025 Penn State play three body bags out of conference.
—Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 30 July 2025
Her body was in her Walnut Hills apartment for several days before Brown obtained a body bag and tried to throw her body into the river, prosecutors said.
—Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 30 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for body bag
Noun
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The content drew attention to the country’s inequality by contrasting the lives of the children of the country’s elite – with designer clothing and foreign vacations – with images of Nepali migrant workers returning home in coffins from dangerous jobs abroad.—
Nir Kshetri,
The Conversation,
14 Sep. 2025
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In a sign of Kirk’s influence in Republican circles, Vice President JD Vance accompanied Kirk’s family and coffin aboard Air Force Two on the trip back to their home in Arizona.—
Michael Collins,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Solomon peppers his story with generational resentments and art-world posturing, while Soderbergh films the interiors of McKellen’s English townhouse like the inner workings of a sarcophagus.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
8 Sep. 2025
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Archaeologists were unsure of what the entire scene depicted until the sarcophagus was handed over to the IAA's conservation team — who assembled the fragments.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
26 June 2025
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Vance was seen carrying Kirk’s casket on the tarmac in Salt Lake City, Utah, while it was being loaded onto Air Force Two.—
Siladitya Ray,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Last week, after the assassination, Vance and his wife, Usha, met with Kirk's family in Salt Lake City, Utah, and flew with them on Air Force Two as Kirk's casket was brought home to Arizona.—
Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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While lying in state, the coffin was placed not on an elevated bier, but facing the pews.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
25 Apr. 2025
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Inside the 16th-century basilica, his casket won't be put on an elevated bier—as was the case with past popes—but will just be placed on the main alta, simply facing the pews.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Apr. 2025
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The 2,300-year-old tomb had two rooms — an entrance chamber and a burial chamber — originally connected with a double door, archaeologists said.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
9 Sep. 2025
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The animal was originally a zhènmùshòu, a monumental, fierce, lion-like tomb guardian from the Tang Dynasty, the authors speculate.—
Amy Woodyatt,
CNN Money,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Their simple yet elevated styles and colors align with our sensibilities, and being able to infuse their sleepwear with our out-of-the-box illustrations felt completely natural.—
Lisa Lockwood,
Footwear News,
16 Sep. 2025
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Rain drizzled down most of the day Friday and into the early evening, but before sunset, as Kansas City shredder Samantha Fish was unleashing on guitar, the clouds parted to make way for a vibrant, double rainbow that arched over the entire box canyon.—
Tiney Ricciardi,
Denver Post,
16 Sep. 2025
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The vault-like room with its large steel access doors held all of the recovered pieces—about 40 percent of the total orbiter—and was a departure from what NASA had done after its previous spaceflight disasters.—
Robert Pearlman,
ArsTechnica,
15 Sep. 2025
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Faulí showed me where Gaudí had begun building a traditional Gothic rib to support the vault.—
D. T. Max,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Body bag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/body%20bag. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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