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- noun Plural form of
mortuary .
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Examples
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Surely the reason that corpses take longer to decompose is simply that mortuaries are now air conditioned as a matter of course.
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Inside worked the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team, a federal unit that works with local coroners, mortuaries and volunteers on mass fatalities.
Kin Keep Vigil at Morgue Amy Merrick 2011
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It also is commonly used as a preservative in medical laboratories, mortuaries and consumer products including some hair straightening products.
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Film clips showed corpses in mortuaries, clouds of smoke, the sound of explosions and gunfire, and demonstrators chanting "Allahu Akbar" God is great.
Syria: 100 die in crackdown as Assad sends in his tanks 2011
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By its graves and mortuaries, by the title that it bore,
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It also is commonly used as a preservative in medical laboratories, mortuaries and consumer products including some hair straightening products.
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Babies are being born on streets, and corpses are rotting because mortuaries are closed.
Robert Weller: Striking South African Unions Vote on Pay Increase Offer 2010
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It is, of course, possible that in the interim Congress will act to forestall this peak in mortality with its inevitable economic side-effects (bottlenecks at mortuaries and funeral homes, shortages of grave plots, runs on the handkerchief counter at Neiman Marcus, etc.).
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Babies are being born on streets, and corpses are rotting because mortuaries are closed.
Robert Weller: Striking South African Unions Vote on Pay Increase Offer 2010
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Over the years, besides making music, preaching and becoming a grandfather to almost 100 children, Solomon Burke operated a chain of mortuaries.
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