morgue
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Vaccines, masking, improved indoor air quality and acquired immunity have all kept the virus at bay so that morgue trucks no longer fill the streets.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
“It was like going to the morgue to identify a body,” said Bayouth, 40.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Rincón's grandfather, Jose Rincón, told BBC Mundo that he viewed at least 200 bodies, including at a morgue in Caracas, searching for his 23-year-old grandson.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
“My daughter wasn’t taken to the morgue, she was transported to the hospital parking lot,” Villalonga said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
What’s next, she demands to know, a trip to the morgue?
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Others were frantically searching by hand for missing loved ones in the rubble, but also in hospitals and morgues.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
Zein al-Abdeen, one of only two forensic doctors in Khartoum, said the capital's morgues "were already full before the war".
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026
Individuals were also identified in footage from morgues, including the Kahrizak Forensic Medical Centre, to where many bodies from Tehran and surrounding areas were transferred.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
The medic advised them to check the morgues, Parviz said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026
He knew its wharfs, its bridges, its viaducts, its alleys, its dens, its parks, its squares, its churches, its morgues, its circuses, its prisons, its hospitals, and its mad-houses.
From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by John Cowper Powys
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