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mummy

verb as in shrivel

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Using old field photographs and careful detective work, Sereno and his colleagues retraced the locations in east-central Wyoming where several classic dinosaur mummies had first been uncovered in the early 1900s.

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This fits with our knowledge of the land of the pharaohs as a society that revered cats, immortalising them in art and preserving them as mummies.

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"School is such an important part of their life for so many reasons and I feel they have been really badly neglected and as a mummy, this makes me really sad."

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"My mummy died on 24 March 2020, and the Chair has made it clear that had a lockdown been a week earlier, people like my mummy would have been saved."

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There are at least thirty bodies, wrapped entirely in white strands like mummies, hanging from the ceiling.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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