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Recent Examples of carrion
Their revolting stench attracts flies and other insects that are irresistibly drawn to the smell of carrion.
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Grrlscientist, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
Vultures have an important job to do scavenging carrion, which helps reduce the risk of diseases from spreading in the environment.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 18 Feb. 2025
The man spotted carrion birds flying overhead, too.
—Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2025
Like vultures sensing fresh carrion, some politicians began moving in with false information and nonsensical claims even as the flames of California’s most damaging fire ever still burned strongly in early January.
—Thomas Elias, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2025
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Grrlscientist, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
Vultures have an important job to do scavenging carrion, which helps reduce the risk of diseases from spreading in the environment.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 18 Feb. 2025
The man spotted carrion birds flying overhead, too.
—Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2025
Like vultures sensing fresh carrion, some politicians began moving in with false information and nonsensical claims even as the flames of California’s most damaging fire ever still burned strongly in early January.
—Thomas Elias, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for carrion
Noun
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The carcass was found so close to the state line that Brunswick County officials were able to move it to Sunset Beach in North Carolina so the University of North Carolina Wilmington Marine Mammal Stranding Program could perform the necropsy and tissue collection, officials said.—
Mark Price,
Miami Herald,
2 June 2025
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Whale carcasses have been found as far north as Alamere Falls, as far west as Farallon Islands and as inland as Berkeley.—
Hollie Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 May 2025
Noun
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Aides played a propaganda video, and Trump held up a photograph of body bags which, according to Reuters, actually showed aid workers burying corpses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
1 June 2025
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When a young family member takes over the business, ethics go out the window as corpses are defiled, organs are sold, gold teeth are pulled, and people are maybe even murdered.—
K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
30 May 2025
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“Carrion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carrion. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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