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Recent Examples of mummify
At 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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mummify
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This will be a short and sharp promotion run: After a few days, the flower’s structure will shrivel and collapse.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
23 Jan. 2025
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Against that enormous and dramatic chronological backdrop, the American Indians shriveled in significance.—
Caroline Winterer / Made by History,
TIME,
14 Jan. 2025
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Regions like northeastern Brazil, one of the world’s notable cocoa-producing areas, are grappling with increasing aridity – a slow, yet unrelenting drying of the land.—
Narcisa Pricope,
The Conversation,
10 Feb. 2025
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However, dried lemon balm or tea bags may be more readily available.—
Johna Burdeos,
Health,
10 Feb. 2025
Verb
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As the character loses his sanity, his off-white robe begins to wilt, becoming threadlike and soiled.—
Ash Wu,
New York Times,
1 Feb. 2025
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But Reese didn’t wilt against the Indiana big men combo of Oumar Ballo and Malik Reneau.—
Bennett Conlin,
Baltimore Sun,
28 Jan. 2025
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Before October 7, 2023, when the Gaza Strip was still intact, polls showed that popular support for Hamas had been withering for some time.—
Scott Atran,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Feb. 2025
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The flowers are generally only open for a day or two before withering.—
Miri Talabac,
Baltimore Sun,
13 Feb. 2025
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“Mummify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mummify. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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