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Recent Examples of mummy
Get The Recipe These Oreo cookie balls resemble mummies, and that's a good enough reason to serve them up at your Halloween party.
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Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 27 Oct. 2024
The international research effort is the first systematic odor and chemical analysis of multiple Egyptian mummies from a range of time periods.
—Sarah Everts, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025
The tomb’s burial chambers, dated to 2400 BC, contain 23 human mummies and more than 30 animal mummies.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 9 Nov. 2024
This is largely thanks to the materials applied to the mummies, which included scented waxes, coniferous resins and oils made from pine, cedar, and juniper, as well as gum resins such as frankincense and myrrh.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 Feb. 2025
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Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 27 Oct. 2024
The international research effort is the first systematic odor and chemical analysis of multiple Egyptian mummies from a range of time periods.
—Sarah Everts, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025
The tomb’s burial chambers, dated to 2400 BC, contain 23 human mummies and more than 30 animal mummies.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 9 Nov. 2024
This is largely thanks to the materials applied to the mummies, which included scented waxes, coniferous resins and oils made from pine, cedar, and juniper, as well as gum resins such as frankincense and myrrh.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mummy
Noun
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With just two episodes left, 1923 weeds out its ensemble cast to the tune of seven fresh corpses.—
Matt Cabral,
EW.com,
30 Mar. 2025
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Matthew’s account of the empty tomb, followed by ever more elaborate resurrection narratives, serves, Pagels suggests, both to address the practical difficulties of reclaiming the bodies of the executed and to counter skeptical claims that Jesus’ corpse had simply been stolen.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
24 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Most will refuel by feasting on the carcasses of animals that died over the winter.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
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The thawing unearthed the carcass of a reindeer that had died from anthrax decades earlier, releasing dormant Bacillus anthracis spores back into the environment.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
16 Mar. 2025
Noun
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In the days after the fires, the authorities searched properties with cadaver dogs and rescue workers in the hopes of finding those reported missing.—
Jesus Jiménez,
New York Times,
4 Apr. 2025
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News that cadaver dogs did not definitively pick up any traces of Shaffer there or anywhere else around the bar.—
Alex Gurley,
People.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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The academic corpus treats market timing like a kind of mirage - achievable in theory but not in practice.—
Steven Desmyter,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
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The thundering poet termed the result uninspired and banal, so the other professor went into Dickinson’s 1,800-poem corpus, retrieved an obscure quatrain and presented it to the poet, who called the result banal and uninspired.—
David Galef,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Feb. 2025
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“Mummy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mummy. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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