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Following its recovery, workers transferred the mummy to the Niğde Museum Directorate for further analysis.
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Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 13 Mar. 2025
It's long been assumed that the king's mummy was discovered in the 19th century at another site called Deir el-Bahari.
—Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2025
Shuffling mummy is more like it.
—Charles Portis, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
This contradicts an earlier finding of a mummy that has long been identified as the Thutmose II at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo.
—Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 24 Feb. 2025
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Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 13 Mar. 2025
It's long been assumed that the king's mummy was discovered in the 19th century at another site called Deir el-Bahari.
—Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2025
Shuffling mummy is more like it.
—Charles Portis, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
This contradicts an earlier finding of a mummy that has long been identified as the Thutmose II at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo.
—Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 24 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mummy
Noun
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White dwarfs, conversely, are the cosmic corpses of smaller stars with masses more in line with that of the sun.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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In Wisconsin, the teen faces nine felony charges, including two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of hiding a corpse, according to online court records and a Waukesha County criminal complaint filed in late March.—
Dalia Faheid,
CNN Money,
13 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The daring skunk drags chunks of the carcass one by one into the log for safekeeping, the video shows.—
Brooke Baitinger,
Idaho Statesman,
9 Apr. 2025
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In August 2024, a Sri Lanka vessel that fished in the Saya de Malha between March and June 2024 was detained by Sri Lankan authorities with over half a ton of oceanic white-tip shark carcasses aboard, all with their fins removed.—
Ian Urbina,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Each season also starts with a flashforward glimpse of a corpse, the question of course being who is the cadaver and more importantly who made it.—
Joe Joyce,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
14 Mar. 2025
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These researches obtained and analyzed tissue from cadavers from 2016 and 2024.—
Sheah Rarback,
Miami Herald,
13 Mar. 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 22 Apr. 2025.
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