decomposed

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The county's medical examiner said the body was "severely decomposed" and deferred on making a ruling on how she died pending the death investigation.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

Based on this evidence, the researchers concluded that the animal had partially decomposed before fossilization, altering its appearance and leading to the earlier misidentification.

From Science Daily • Apr. 7, 2026

To Arcuri, Nvidia’s work to provide a whole AI system “shifts performance discussions away from standalone GPU generations and toward how workloads are decomposed, orchestrated and scaled across the full system.”

From MarketWatch • Mar. 10, 2026

But about three years after death, once the organic matter has decomposed, loved ones break open the front slab of the chamber.

From Barron's • Oct. 22, 2025

One of the few circumstances that save us from extinction by this means is the fact that parathion and other chemicals of this 0 group are decomposed rather rapidly.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson