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Alarmed animal lovers are demanding answers as dead birds repeatedly plummet from the sky, with the carcasses falling on a quiet residential street.
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Chloe Mayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2025
Grizzly 1058 had likely been dead for three to seven days, based on the fact that roughly 20 percent of the carcass had been scavenged, per the Jackson Hole News & Guide.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2025
State of play: Three of the carcasses were reported in a single week in April, an unusual occurrence that hadn't happened in years.
—Nadia Lopez, Axios, 1 May 2025
The hospital’s staff had braced for an onslaught of wounded after learning of the disaster, an army of ambulances having descended on the farm to the southwest of the city center where the plane’s carcass lay burning.
—Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 27 Apr. 2025
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Chloe Mayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2025
Grizzly 1058 had likely been dead for three to seven days, based on the fact that roughly 20 percent of the carcass had been scavenged, per the Jackson Hole News & Guide.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2025
State of play: Three of the carcasses were reported in a single week in April, an unusual occurrence that hadn't happened in years.
—Nadia Lopez, Axios, 1 May 2025
The hospital’s staff had braced for an onslaught of wounded after learning of the disaster, an army of ambulances having descended on the farm to the southwest of the city center where the plane’s carcass lay burning.
—Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 27 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for carcass
corpse
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Emmit Yarbrough, 58, pleaded guilty in March to arson, a Level 4 felony, and abuse of a corpse, a Level 6 felony.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
22 May 2025
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Schneider has been charged with kidnapping leading to death, concealment of a corpse and endangering the integrity of the corpse, per The Telegraph; Caboubassy and Benrakia were charged with complicity.—
Becca Longmire,
People.com,
20 May 2025
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“Carcass.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carcass. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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