mummies

plural of mummy

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Noun
  • The family’s ordeal worsened Sunday when her brother-in-law found the body of his mother, Rosa María Díaz de Rodríguez, among a pile of corpses.
    Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 29 June 2026
  • The men escape, but their frantic exit leads them through the gruesome Terminus food-supply dungeon, where fresh corpses hang on meathooks.
    EW Staff, Entertainment Weekly, 25 June 2026
Noun
  • There are also permanent upgrades to health and attack power, as well as rare relics that enable unique skills, like multiple jumps.
    Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 30 June 2026
  • Museum of Miami The Museum of Miami, formerly HistoryMiami, holds the relics and artifacts that were excavated at the Miami Circle.
    Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • The woodcut birth figures contained in these books were not images drawn from observation—pregnant cadavers for anatomical drawing were hard to come by—but were instead abstracted diagrams of the chaotic diversity of laboring bodies.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
  • Scientists identified one of the modern cadavers as a minke whale, or Balaenoptera acutorostrata, that measured about 10 feet (3 meters) long.
    Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 12 June 2026
Noun
  • In the spring of 2023, as epic winter snows melted, horse carcasses emerged along the shores of South Tufa and nearby Navy Beach.
    Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026
  • Tick Free Martha’s Vineyard plans to build a processing facility for the carcasses; the meat, most of it donated to a local food pantry, is in high demand.
    Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
Noun
  • Preparing skeletal specimens for display in museums or for forensic studies requires the bones to be thoroughly cleaned to remove any remaining flesh or soft tissue.
    Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 1 July 2026
  • In the photo above, Blanton explains that this pool house had great bones, with the vaulted ceiling and accordion doors that open completely onto the pool deck.
    Terri Williams, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
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“Mummies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mummies. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.

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