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Recent Examples of body bag
Other video showed numerous body bags at the hospital amid grieving relatives.
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Abeer Salman, CNN, 20 Oct. 2024
In May, protesters held late-night demonstrations outside the private homes of several university regents, placing fake bloody body bags on their lawns and tacking a list of demands to their front doors, according to a statement from university president Santa J. Ono.
—Jake Tapper, CNN, 9 Dec. 2024
One rescue worker took a tiny body bag and leaned into the pickup truck for the infant’s body.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
Five minutes in a full body bag can lower core body temperature by as much as 1 degree Fahrenheit.
—Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 19 July 2024
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Abeer Salman, CNN, 20 Oct. 2024
In May, protesters held late-night demonstrations outside the private homes of several university regents, placing fake bloody body bags on their lawns and tacking a list of demands to their front doors, according to a statement from university president Santa J. Ono.
—Jake Tapper, CNN, 9 Dec. 2024
One rescue worker took a tiny body bag and leaned into the pickup truck for the infant’s body.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
Five minutes in a full body bag can lower core body temperature by as much as 1 degree Fahrenheit.
—Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 19 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for body bag
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If the Palestinian people were ever somehow forcibly expelled from Gaza, this crime against humanity would spark widespread conflict, put the final nail in the coffin of international law, and destroy what remains of our nation's international image and standing.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
5 Feb. 2025
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Finally, a coffin was carried from the morgue and placed on the roof of a minivan, which had a photograph of the deceased fixed to the front bumper.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
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In addition to traditional promotional items such as imposing standees in movie theater lobbies and themed popcorn buckets, fans of the film can shell out $20,000 to buy a full-size replica sarcophagus bed.—
Simon Thompson,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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Some of the official merch inspired by the film has caught the attention of the internet, including a popcorn bucket shaped like a coffin and a $20,000 life-sized sarcophagus bed.—
William Earl,
Variety,
26 Dec. 2024
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Easton had his wife’s body placed in an open casket.—
Ariane Lange,
Sacramento Bee,
26 Jan. 2025
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The show struggles a bit in places to credibly evoke the relative innocence (or quiet oppression) of the 1970s and there are some moments of cluttered staging that just don’t work; as one example, a big gag involving kids hiding in a coffin kinda needs a casket to work.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Jan. 2025
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The Senate may well have all been murdered on Lucilla’s weird, theater-y funeral bier.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
22 Nov. 2024
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Among the changes, the new rites eliminate the practice of placing the pope on an elevated bier in St. Peter's Basilica for public viewing.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
20 Nov. 2024
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In it, a small baby lies on a tomb of red velvet, her skin and dress a rocky gray (Eguiguren Arte de Hispanomérica, D10) and eye sockets blank, an icy contrast to the fresh roses and wildflowers with which she is adorned.—
Walker Mimms,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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On the thirteenth-century tomb of Eleanor of Aquitaine, she is shown wide awake and reading, while her dull and kingly husband sleeps for all eternity.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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Each box includes whole leaf teas harvested from tea estates around the world.—
Brenda Stolyar,
WIRED,
27 Jan. 2025
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Then, in September 2023, Swift made her first appearance at a Chiefs game when she was spotted in a box with Kelce's mother, Donna Kelce.—
Joel Thayer,
Newsweek,
27 Jan. 2025
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The freshman made her debut on the apparatus, nearly sticking her Yurchenko 1.5 vault for a 9.850.—
Benjamin Royer,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Feb. 2025
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The building’s character may remain in some ways, as Rudolph hopes to incorporate the old bank vault into the design of the reconfigured building.—
Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Jan. 2025
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“Body bag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/body%20bag. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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