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Recent Examples of mummifyAt the beginning of that play, her character has spent a decade as a sort of half widow; her husband, who had disappeared ten years earlier, has finally been found, mummified in a peat bog.—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2024 Also in 2020, researchers described the discovery of a 57,000-year-old wolf pup that had been mummified in permafrost in Canada’s Yukon territory.—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024 Those costly and time-consuming techniques go against the notion that the woman was intentionally mummified quickly and cheaply.—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024 Found in a wooden coffin, the elderly woman dressed in a black wig and gold and silver scarab rings had been mummified with nothing short of a look of horror on her face.—New Atlas, 2 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for mummify
That count morphed to more than 300 million monthly users by 2016, but had shriveled to 36 million in 2023, Microsoft said.
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Kate Gibson,
CBS News,
28 Feb. 2025
This method results in a large percentage of the water in the grapes to be lost, resulting in these dehydrated berries shriveling, often to the size of raisins.
The budge-proof formula sets quickly, so get blending straight away to ensure the formula dries down to your liking.
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Annie Blackman,
Allure,
7 Mar. 2025
There’s always an element of chemistry to consider; tannins, which are compounds in wine present in grape seeds, grape skins, and oak barrels, offer a drying or astringent quality on the tongue and gums.
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Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen,
Robb Report,
7 Mar. 2025
O'Neal explained that her confidence in her acting ability began to wither under Ryan's blistering criticism.
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Ashley Hume,
Fox News,
28 Feb. 2025
Death is rarely physically dignified, and visibly withering from old age in front of the entire world is perhaps one of the heaviest crosses a pope must bear.
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Timothy Nerozzi,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
28 Feb. 2025
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