corpse
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She also believes general awareness of the corpse flower increases each summer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
In Operation Mincemeat, the British planted a corpse with fake top-secret documents implying an Allied invasion of Greece and Sardinia to provide cover for their Sicily campaign.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Corpse flowers bloom for just 24 to 48 hours, and once opened, they reek of gym socks, rotten eggs and decaying flesh … or, well, a corpse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Hailing from the rainforests of Sumatra, Indonesia, corpse flowers are a massive, putrid spectacle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Pink and Smiley and Dunse McCall came in, tiptoeing over to me like I was a haint or a corpse, or like they planned to yessir and no-sir me from now on.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
Sometimes known as "Doctor Death", he became famous for developing a technique called plastination, by which fluids and fatty tissue in corpses are replaced by rubber and polymers.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Families in eastern Congo traditionally wash and bury their dead themselves, but the corpses of Ebola victims are highly infectious.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
A preliminary investigation shows it may be a case of an "unlawful disposal of unclaimed corpses", it added.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2026
Shortages in material and equipment — including body bags — meant that exhuming and reburying all the remaining corpses around Khartoum exceeded his agency’s resources, al-Abidin said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026
“He wanted new vessels for the throng haints because the human corpses are decaying.”
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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