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About 20 years ago, researchers discovered three ancient mummies in China.
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Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2024
Scientists retrieved ancient kefir cheese from Tarim Basin mummies dating back 3,500 years from the Xiaohe cemetery located in Xinjiang, Western China.
—Ashley J. Dimella Fox News, Fox News, 26 Sep. 2024
Through phylogenetic research, the scientists traced the mummies' cheese microorganisms as being most closely related to the Tibetan strain.
—New Atlas, 25 Sep. 2024
The morsels, buried with mummies, are 3,600 years old.
—Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 30 Sep. 2024
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Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2024
Scientists retrieved ancient kefir cheese from Tarim Basin mummies dating back 3,500 years from the Xiaohe cemetery located in Xinjiang, Western China.
—Ashley J. Dimella Fox News, Fox News, 26 Sep. 2024
Through phylogenetic research, the scientists traced the mummies' cheese microorganisms as being most closely related to the Tibetan strain.
—New Atlas, 25 Sep. 2024
The morsels, buried with mummies, are 3,600 years old.
—Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 30 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mummy
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Case closed, with what’s left of Sofia’s car and Sal Maroni’s whole corpse lying in the rubble for good measure.Andy Andersen, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
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The sight of Till’s mutilated and decomposed corpse at his open-casket funeral galvanized the civil-rights movement.Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
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The carcass of the juvenile female whale, measuring almost 47 feet, was found Saturday night along the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail in Anchorage, Anchorage Daily Newsreported Tuesday.Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2024
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Their carcasses formed an artificial bay to protect the city from wind and waves — although Neft Daşları has remained vulnerable to storms and rough water.Laura Paddison, CNN, 6 Nov. 2024
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Holdups include environmental inspections to ensure the properties are safe, and customary searches by cadaver dogs, though no missing people have been reported, Fryhoff said.Dennis Romero, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2024
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Eight hours a day, Hampton, Briggs and her dogs paddled downstream, picking through the river’s tributaries and storm detritus, as the cadaver dogs perched on the raft’s bow, following scents.Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
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The exhibition lays claim to the body as the superintending conceit of Warhol’s corpus—an argument often strained by inclusions here of the Hammer & Sickle (1976) works or allusions to the film Sleep (1964).Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 4 Oct. 2024
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The size and breadth of these corpora feed into the ability of foundation models to serve multiple downstream tasks.Jenna Wiens, STAT, 25 Aug. 2023
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“Mummy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mummy. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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