Thesaurus results for CARCASSES

carcasses

noun

plural of carcass

as in corpses

a dead body the carcass of a squirrel that had been run over

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Recent Examples of carcasses Traditional surveys of carcasses along roadways have shown that crossings do reduce wildlife collisions. — Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026 Scores of the calf carcasses have been washing ashore around Peninsula Valdes, a major breeding ground for southern right whales in Argentina’s Chubut province. — ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026 For instance, the Department of Natural Resources submitted a rule for legislative approval that sets up containment areas and disposes of carcasses for diseased animals. — CBS News, 27 Sep. 2026 Cotter was given village board approval this week to continue outsourcing the work and to collect carcasses from private property. — Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026 The hook in one panel evokes Chaïm Soutine, who painted slaughterhouses while keeping kosher, fascinated and horrified by the carnival of carcasses that to others had been normalized. — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 18 Sep. 2026 Other state regulations prohibit hunters from transporting any deer or elk carcasses from any state where chronic wasting disease has been documented into Connecticut, unless the meat has been de-boned, according to DEEP. — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 15 Sep. 2026 Then, in March of 1992, some forty godwit carcasses were seized from a poacher in New Zealand. — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026 Though researchers have observed evidence of humans hunting large megafauna in later periods, the discovery suggests that early humans processed elephant carcasses more systematically. — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 14 Aug. 2026

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corpses

Noun

In that out-of-use cooler, two living roaches rather ghoulishly hung around the 17 roach corpses.

— David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026
The sheer number of corpses meant that traditional burial ceremonies were forgotten for a time, and mass unmarked grave sites were used outside the city walls.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2026

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