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Recent Examples of cadavers
The authors argue that those features, the intact, hyper-flexed skeletons and the absence of the disarticulation expected after ordinary decay, indicate bodies had been desiccated before burial rather than interred as fresh cadavers.
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Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
Instead, the evidence suggested that the bodies were dried and preserved, buried in a desiccated state, rather than as fresh cadavers.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
Instead, the evidence suggested that the bodies were dried and preserved, buried in a desiccated state, rather than as fresh cadavers.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cadavers
Noun
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After a wild night, Magritte wakes up beside the body of performance artist Legge, and police are then dispatched to discover the killer, as more corpses pile up.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
9 Sep. 2025
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The scene in which Mary Ellen walks through a maze of corpses only to find one of herself?—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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However, officials said the officer did not find any bear carcasses or evidence of poaching.—
Daniella Segura,
Sacbee.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Blue sharks are known to scavenge on basking shark carcasses, according to John Chisholm, an adjunct scientist at the New England Aquarium.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
7 Sep. 2025
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“Cadavers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cadavers. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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