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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 Ospreay walked through relics from the past and present backstage, including Michael Oku, Swerve Strickland, Ricochet, Kyle Fletcher, his wife Alex Windsor and finally Jon Moxley, who gave Ospreay the flag of London. — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026 Simonian is believed to have smuggled Egyptian relics to institutions that include the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Louvre Abu Dhabi for a collective sum of $64 million. — News Desk, Artforum, 26 Aug. 2026 In Freeport, Allen has built the Bahamas Maritime Museum, where relics are cataloged, conserved, and displayed, creating local jobs and drawing tourists. — Brett Berk, Robb Report, 22 Aug. 2026 Those old Albanian passports were relics of Communism, built to last. — Ledio Cakaj, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2026 Enclosed by a network of 13th-century walls, the narrow streets of old York host myriad awe-inspiring relics from its pre-industrial past, perhaps the most famous being York Minster, one of the most beautiful Gothic cathedrals anywhere. — Paul Jebara, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Aug. 2026 In 2018, a huge fire engulfed Brazil’s 200-year-old National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, as firefighters and museum workers raced to save historical relics. — ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026 Shelving units in the garage are tightly, but neatly, packed with containers of various items, from Nike sneakers to Cold War-era relics, labeled with a description or lot number scrawled in black marker. — Sarah Jackson valentina Duarte, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2026 Things like trumpets cracking, lights failing, and the BBC presenter’s original record of the broadcast breaking – all remind us of the fragility of relics, said Finn. — Sheena McKenzie, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026

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corpse

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His corpse was luridly blown up on a projector, streaming live on the Law&Crime YouTube channel, naked and dead.

— Jeff Weiss, HollywoodReporter, 1 Sep. 2026
So, Hedrick was convicted of misdemeanor abuse of a corpse, not for playing a role in Beason’s death.

— Holly Yan, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026

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