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Recent Examples of corpses
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.
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Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2025
The scene in which Mary Ellen walks through a maze of corpses only to find one of herself?
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
Outside Gaza City's Al-Shifa hospital, white plastic body bags with corpses were laid out on the street.
—Emily Rose, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
Many of the other Avengers turn into brain-eating corpses, such as Iron Man, Doctor Strange, Wong, Hawkeye, Falcon and Wanda Maximoff.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
Turtle corpses stopped washing ashore.
—Suwanna Gauntlett Upjohn, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Victor fine-tunes his research, and eventually succeeds in bringing to life a patchwork man of superhuman strength, put together with body parts plucked from corpses left behind on a battlefield.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 30 Aug. 2025
Someone had to have dug the pit, stacked the corpses, bulldozed over the mass graves.
—Seema Jilani
august 29, Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 2025
Just last year, the Nepalese government and local Sherpas reportedly removed 24,000 pounds of trash and frozen corpses from the mountain’s slopes.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2025
Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2025
The scene in which Mary Ellen walks through a maze of corpses only to find one of herself?
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
Outside Gaza City's Al-Shifa hospital, white plastic body bags with corpses were laid out on the street.
—Emily Rose, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
Many of the other Avengers turn into brain-eating corpses, such as Iron Man, Doctor Strange, Wong, Hawkeye, Falcon and Wanda Maximoff.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
Turtle corpses stopped washing ashore.
—Suwanna Gauntlett Upjohn, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Victor fine-tunes his research, and eventually succeeds in bringing to life a patchwork man of superhuman strength, put together with body parts plucked from corpses left behind on a battlefield.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 30 Aug. 2025
Someone had to have dug the pit, stacked the corpses, bulldozed over the mass graves.
—Seema Jilani
august 29, Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 2025
Just last year, the Nepalese government and local Sherpas reportedly removed 24,000 pounds of trash and frozen corpses from the mountain’s slopes.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for corpses
carcasses
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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“Corpses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corpses. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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