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morgue

[mawrg] / mɔrg /
NOUN
mortuary
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Ms. Margolles witnessed these outcomes first-hand in her earlier career as a forensic technician in Mexico City’s morgue, an experience that infuses her work with elements of scientific exactitude as well as ritualistic imagery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

In a building next to a makeshift morgue in Bharatpur, Shobha Adhikary emerged from the crowd after scanning the LED screen.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

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

The last time Morrie saw his own father was in a city morgue.

From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom

"The government may be inexperienced, but it has done its best," said Prakash Aryal, who has been searching morgues for his sister and her family, speaking to AFP at a Kathmandu hospital.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

"We've searched for him in hospitals, in morgues – everywhere," his stepfather, Jose Alejandro Abache, told BBC Mundo.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

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

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

At Nineveh they are burying all the unidentified dead, but in the morgues in this vicinity no bodies have been buried unless they were identified.

From The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin by James Herbert Walker




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