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mummy

[muhm-ee] / ˈmʌm i /


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Following indirect contact with her mother the court heard that the child experiences "significant difficulties" and can wake at night and say "she is scared of the dark and mummy".

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

According to Maixner, the results show that the mummy is "not a static relic, but a dynamic biological system."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026

The team also made an unexpected discovery: cold-adapted yeast species that likely came from the glacier and have remained on the mummy into the present day.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026

At some point, it was torn into strips and used to wrap a mummy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

Ever since the accident, he walks around like a mummy.

From "Because of Mr. Terupt" by Rob Buyea

"One detail I find quite beautiful is the presence of a mummified dog placed directly on top of the mummies of a man and a woman," said Carballo-Pérez.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026

"It was really nice to have her in the middle to celebrate that hundred – two mummies," Wyatt-Hodge said.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

In a joint Instagram post the pair, who both play for Saracens, wrote: "Baby Packer due October 2026 and your mummies and big brother can't wait to meet you."

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026

Across all samples, scientists identified 81 distinct VOCs that offer clues about the materials used during the embalming process and the time periods in which the mummies were prepared.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 16, 2026

I found them in her bedroom, rolled up tightly in wet bed-sheets, like mummies.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk

A knock on the door, and there stands Heseltine resigning from Mrs. Thatcher's Cabinet, Marcos on the stump, Gaddafi playing cowboy on his tractor, mummied to the nose.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bronwyn hovered anxiously around an old woman who was teetering half-conscious in a chair, mummied up in a blanket.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

They picked their way among the mummied figures.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

Skeleton leaves, twigs, dead flies, mummied earwigs began to drop down in all directions.

From Rich Relatives by Compton MacKenzie

The ground was hidden in a ruin of perished stuff, uprooted trees, parchments of leaves, broken boughs, and mummied husks, the iron globes of nuts, and pods.

From The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson




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