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corpse

[kawrps] / kɔrps /


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But I can choose to recognize that some performers, artistic works and brands are simply too big to fail or bury, so they become some version of a beached grey whale’s corpse.

From Salon • May 14, 2026

Pangy the corpse flower is back in bloom.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026

A hearse driver lost his argument that the corpse in back was a passenger.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Mojtaba Khamanei said in his message he had seen the late ayatollah's corpse after his "martyrdom".

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026

The corpse was mummified by the cold, and this time the lawmen had no trouble identifying the victim: Henry Roan, a forty-year-old Osage Indian who was married with two children.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann




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