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Recent Examples of corpse
At the opening night gala, Heidi Klum showed up with a very long train, but minutes later, a man ran past me in the halls of the Palais with her dress in his arms like a corpse.
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Rachel Handler, Vulture, 24 May 2025
Yet without a corpse in sight, recluse Vesta becomes obsessed with solving the would-be murder.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 16 May 2025
Emmit Yarbrough, 58, pleaded guilty in March to arson, a Level 4 felony, and abuse of a corpse, a Level 6 felony.
—Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2025
Schneider has been charged with kidnapping leading to death, concealment of a corpse and endangering the integrity of the corpse, per The Telegraph; Caboubassy and Benrakia were charged with complicity.
—Becca Longmire, People.com, 20 May 2025
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Rachel Handler, Vulture, 24 May 2025
Yet without a corpse in sight, recluse Vesta becomes obsessed with solving the would-be murder.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 16 May 2025
Emmit Yarbrough, 58, pleaded guilty in March to arson, a Level 4 felony, and abuse of a corpse, a Level 6 felony.
—Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2025
Schneider has been charged with kidnapping leading to death, concealment of a corpse and endangering the integrity of the corpse, per The Telegraph; Caboubassy and Benrakia were charged with complicity.
—Becca Longmire, People.com, 20 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for corpse
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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
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These researches obtained and analyzed tissue from cadavers from 2016 and 2024.—
Sheah Rarback,
Miami Herald,
13 Mar. 2025
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While at shrinking Lake Mead a few gangster cadavers showed up in the mud, the Salton Sea contains crashed planes and practice bombs, the targets simulations during the 1940s for the real atomic bombs dropped on Japan.—
Dennis Hinkamp,
The Denver Post,
5 Feb. 2025
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“Corpse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corpse. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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