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The mummy of the Mysterious Lady was not pregnant, and Egyptian mummies smell spicy, sweet, and woody.
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Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
Many of the mummies also emanated hints of smoke, mold, flowers and dust, among other odors.
—Sarah Everts, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025
There is a certain internal logic to making mummies smell good.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025
The beast’s remains were originally excavated in 1914 during an expedition to Bahariya Oasis, a site in Egypt’s western desert known for yielding additional dinosaur bones, as well as ancient mummies and architectural treasures.
—Leslie Katz, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
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Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
Many of the mummies also emanated hints of smoke, mold, flowers and dust, among other odors.
—Sarah Everts, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025
There is a certain internal logic to making mummies smell good.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025
The beast’s remains were originally excavated in 1914 during an expedition to Bahariya Oasis, a site in Egypt’s western desert known for yielding additional dinosaur bones, as well as ancient mummies and architectural treasures.
—Leslie Katz, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mummy
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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
Noun
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FedEx typically prohibits the shipping of animal carcasses except in certain circumstances, which might include getting pre-approval.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
29 May 2025
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Cleaning up the Environment Vultures fulfill the vital role of consuming carrion, or the carcasses of dead animals.—
Jack Knudson,
Discover Magazine,
9 May 2025
Noun
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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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While at shrinking Lake Mead a few gangster cadavers showed up in the mud, the Salton Sea contains crashed planes and practice bombs, the targets simulations during the 1940s for the real atomic bombs dropped on Japan.—
Dennis Hinkamp,
The Denver Post,
5 Feb. 2025
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Trust income and corpus is deemed accumulated even if the U.S. person’s interest in the trust is contingent on future events.—
Matthew L. Roberts,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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After he was convicted, now it’s gone on to appeals, he’s filed for two Habeas corpus’, he’s filed an appellate brief.—
Jessica Bennett,
VIBE.com,
22 May 2025
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“Mummy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mummy. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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