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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 Homecoming aside, there’s still the Trawler to worry about, a fact we’re reminded of when another victim turns up on a playground, this time with a pentagram carved into his back and fish corpses shoved into his wounds. — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026 And just over a year after that, the Morgans landed back in the news after authorities found 56 decomposing corpses inside another one of their businesses, South Deering’s South Chicago Chapel. — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2026 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 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 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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The practice of cutting fins off live sharks and throwing the carcasses back into the sea is banned in much of the Pacific Ocean, but persists due to demand in East and Southeast Asia.

— CBS News, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026
Though researchers have observed evidence of humans hunting large megafauna in later periods, the discovery suggests that early humans processed elephant carcasses more systematically.

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 14 Aug. 2026

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