corpse
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A rare corpse flower, known for its massive size and foul stench, will bloom for just 24 to 48 hours.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
The last time multiple corpse flowers bloomed on the same day at the Huntington was in 2018.
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
He gives it to a man in black who puts the offering in with the corpse, gently, so she doesn’t wake up.
From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson
A clockwise march past the 85 exhibits develops a chronology from the birth of modern war in the tangled British and French corpses of J.M.W.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
A preliminary investigation shows it may be a case of an "unlawful disposal of unclaimed corpses", it added.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2026
Men and women prayed before the funeral, facing the corpses in the hospital compound.
From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 2026
As reading declines, fragments of the literary past float to the cultural surface like corpses after a shipwreck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
They began taking on physical form, like walking corpses, but they seemed confused.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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