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
The Los Silos facility, a port storage site that has been turned into a makeshift morgue.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
A makeshift morgue is operating outdoors in the port of La Guaira, where long lines form to receive the bodies of loved ones and the death certificates.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
The pungent smell of death emanates from the Caracas morgue, an odour that thousands of liters of donated chlorine cannot mask.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
She answered in a voice almost too soft to hear, “I saw them at Toronto in the morgue, side by side.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
He continues to tour hospitals and morgues, following possible leads sent to him from other family members, who continue to dig through rubble.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 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
Verified footage from various parts of the country showed Iranians searching for the bodies of loved ones in makeshift or overcrowded morgues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026
After completing her Masters, she studied for a PhD, researching morgues in Paris and New York from 1864 to 1914.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2025
There were nightmares that frightened me—frightened me, Arthur, a grown man who had dissected countless cadavers in morgues and medical schools.
From Doom of the House of Duryea by Earl Peirce
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