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Recent Examples of carcass
Alarmed animal lovers are demanding answers as dead birds repeatedly plummet from the sky, with the carcasses falling on a quiet residential street.
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Chloe Mayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2025
Grizzly 1058 had likely been dead for three to seven days, based on the fact that roughly 20 percent of the carcass had been scavenged, per the Jackson Hole News & Guide.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2025
State of play: Three of the carcasses were reported in a single week in April, an unusual occurrence that hadn't happened in years.
—Nadia Lopez, Axios, 1 May 2025
The hospital’s staff had braced for an onslaught of wounded after learning of the disaster, an army of ambulances having descended on the farm to the southwest of the city center where the plane’s carcass lay burning.
—Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 27 Apr. 2025
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Chloe Mayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2025
Grizzly 1058 had likely been dead for three to seven days, based on the fact that roughly 20 percent of the carcass had been scavenged, per the Jackson Hole News & Guide.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2025
State of play: Three of the carcasses were reported in a single week in April, an unusual occurrence that hadn't happened in years.
—Nadia Lopez, Axios, 1 May 2025
The hospital’s staff had braced for an onslaught of wounded after learning of the disaster, an army of ambulances having descended on the farm to the southwest of the city center where the plane’s carcass lay burning.
—Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 27 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for carcass
corpse
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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“Carcass.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carcass. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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