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corpses

noun

plural of corpse

as in carcasses

a dead body the startling discovery of a corpse required a call to the police

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Recent Examples of corpses Gein murdered at least two women, as well as illegally exhumed and mutilated multiple corpses, in the 1940s and 1950s. — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026 Few things are as shocking to living people as corpses decomposing in the summer heat. — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026 The village’s daily rhythms are ordered by the passing trains—until a train arrives from Pakistan loaded with the corpses of Sikh refugees, and the community is made to cremate the dead. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026 Of course, corpses don’t really look like Madeline did, after she’d been made up. — John Semley, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026 Ill winds, however, force his return all too soon — as one of many corpses washed ashore from a shipwreck. — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 26 July 2026 Morgues were at capacity, so corpses had been laid in a parking lot, then moved to a seaport, where the stench of death hung heavy. — Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 20 July 2026 Kathleen insists that Lukas was likely incinerated, along with all of the other corpses that piled up in the Down Deep during the rebellion. — Noel Murray, Vulture, 17 July 2026 Rogan suggested that his guest should hurry up with Iran-war negotiations and get on with the real business of the government, such as finding out whether the government is secretly hoarding extraterrestrial corpses. — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 16 July 2026

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carcasses

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Two of them were killed, and their carcasses were abandoned and left to waste.

— Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Aug. 2026
At least one of the alligators was shot with a crossbow bolt, indicating intentional targeting, and the carcasses of the two alligators that died were abandoned and left to waste, TPWD said.

— Doug Myers, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2026

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