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Recent Examples of mummy
Unlike his possessions, King Tut didn’t make the trip to Chicago — his mummy remained in the Valley of the Kings outside Luxor, Egypt.
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Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
In the early 1990s, an intact mummy was discovered in the Ötztal Alps, on the Italian-Austrian border, that proved to be more than 5,000 years old.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
Europe’s oldest natural mummy, Ötzi the Iceman, died with moss packed into his boots for warmth.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2026
In ancient Egypt, no single community could produce a mummy.
—R. Alexander Bentley, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2026
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Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
In the early 1990s, an intact mummy was discovered in the Ötztal Alps, on the Italian-Austrian border, that proved to be more than 5,000 years old.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
Europe’s oldest natural mummy, Ötzi the Iceman, died with moss packed into his boots for warmth.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2026
In ancient Egypt, no single community could produce a mummy.
—R. Alexander Bentley, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mummy
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Tamisha Cheyniece Drake, 33, of Lufkin, has been charged with abuse of a corpse, a state jail felony, according to the Angelina County Sheriff's Office.—
Doug Myers,
CBS News,
27 Apr. 2026
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Many fans on social media are lauding his accomplishment of dragging a bloated corpse of a roster to a 3-0 series lead at 41 years of age without Austin Reaves or Luka Doncic in the fold.—
Austin Perry OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
25 Apr. 2026
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As the construction site lies between the city hall, which dates back to the Middle Ages, and the town’s medieval defenses, archaeologists expected to uncover historical relics.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Apr. 2026
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The hotel is preserving relics from his time across the fort.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 Apr. 2026
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Anacapa Island, for instance, has no services aside from some primitive campsites, a lighthouse and limited hiking options, but is also a major seabird rookery from April to August, which translates to lots of bird poop, noise, bird carcasses and territorial bird behavior.—
Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
29 Apr. 2026
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New York has implemented a strict policy that no deer carcasses can be brought into the state, despite whether it was shot in a chronic wasting disease positive state or not.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
28 Apr. 2026
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Over the next two days, officers and personnel from the medical examiner’s office conducted an extensive search, canvassing the area with cadaver dogs, which identified the possible presence of additional remains near a drainage pipe.—
Hanna Park,
CNN Money,
23 Apr. 2026
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During a subsequent canvass of the area, cadaver dogs alerted to a nearby drainage pipe, indicating possible human remains, according to officials.—
Marlene Lenthang,
NBC news,
23 Apr. 2026
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Trained on such a corpus, an AI helper could speak your company’s language fluently, and reveal richly profitable connections in your files.—
Erik German,
Fortune,
11 Apr. 2026
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Malmi chose to release these as part of a civil trial against an Australian man who was sued for falsely claiming to be the Bitcoin creator, providing the largest corpus of Satoshi’s communications to date.—
Frank Landymore,
Futurism,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Mummy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mummy. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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