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morgue

[mawrg] / mɔrg /
NOUN
mortuary
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At the morgue, the babies were brought in with their diapers and blankets and with their hospital ID bracelets still wrapped around their tiny ankles.

From Salon • May 7, 2026

At a makeshift morgue in Khartoum, engineer turned mortician Ali Gebbai clicked through a spreadsheet of the dead.

From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026

They found him four days later in Tehran’s Kahrizak morgue.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 1, 2026

“We went to the morgue and there he was,” Irma said.

From Slate • Jan. 15, 2026

For a week, his body had been in the morgue, waiting to be taken someplace.

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez




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