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relics

noun

plural of relic

as in corpse

a dead body though it is believed that missionary died in New Guinea, his relics have never been found

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Recent Examples of relics Among the relics of its decline is a hulking complex of rusted pipes, towers and conveyor belts in Delano, just five miles north of the McFarland chipping yard. — Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026 The landscape flowed in ridges and mountains of faded yellow and whisper pink, where welwitschia–large, low-lying plants that live to be hundreds of years old–sprawled like relics from a Dune film set. — Samantha Falewée, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Oct. 2026 Among those cosmic relics are raw organic building blocks, the kind that may have seeded life on Earth. — Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 20 Oct. 2026 Plunge into this immersive epic, uncovering what chilling relics risk escaping the thawing ice. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 20 Oct. 2026 The presentation positioned Zelda products almost as relics representing an ancient myth passed down through history. — Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 5 Oct. 2026 When it was closed down in 1539, its treasures, books and relics were seized and its lands and buildings sold off, some to local nobles and gentry, some to the town authorities of Bury. — Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026 In the capital, worshippers carried a fragment of Donskoy’s relics through the streets in a procession led by Kirill. — Cnn Staff, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2026 The child, the now-teenaged James Fulton Engstrom, is slated to present relics of Sheen at the ceremony, accompanied by his family, who had sought Sheen's intercession for healing. — ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026

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corpse

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Twenty-three-year-old Avia Cantrell is now charged with capital murder, while a man believed to be her boyfriend, 26-year-old Camron Baker, is charged with abuse of a corpse.

— Erin Jones, CBS News, 21 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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