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carrion

[kar-ee-uhn] / ˈkær i ən /
NOUN
decaying flesh
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With three first-round picks, the Mystics could consider a draft-and-stash here, and that might just be Carrion.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026

“All the parties that defended her have decided to let her go,” said Julio Carrion, a Peruvian political scientist at the University of Delaware.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

Carrion crows can count out loud, effectively calling “one, two, three” as they caw, researchers report today in Science.

From Science Magazine • May 22, 2024

In collaboration with Texas Biomed Professor Ricardo Carrion, Jr., PhD, the team will analyze tissues from animal models for virus-containing nanotubes.

From Science Daily • Dec. 18, 2023

It is less wary of man than the Carrion Crow, and often comes within shot, but, being far too numerous to admit of being exterminated, is but little assailed.

From British Birds in their Haunts by Johns, Rev. C. A.




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