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corpse

noun as in dead body

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And the phenomenon continues—nowhere more obviously than in Romania, where, in 2019, an Orthodox priest was prosecuted for his alleged role in exhuming and impaling a corpse.

Hamas has said it has recovered another corpse which will be handed back when "conditions allow."

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A convent girl with a creepy streak, Elizabeth sees beauty in biology, leaning over a corpse’s flayed back to appreciate the intricacy of its ventricles.

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He expressed deep contrition over the video in which he bit the dog's corpse, stating he had not been responsible for its death.

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Then, he was able to digitally erase both the corpse and the rope, leaving behind only the visual context in which the horror took place.

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