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Recent Examples of exhume
The detective is at a cemetery, where the police are exhuming a casket.
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Matt Cabral, EW.com, 13 Apr. 2025
In September 2006, Cawthon -- in collaboration with police -- was able to get Kari's body exhumed, and an autopsy was conducted.
—Doc Louallen, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2025
The team likewise found no evidence that the body had ever been buried and exhumed, Nerlich added.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 2 May 2025
When Leah allows Athena to exhume her son’s grave, however, the truth comes out — there’s no body in the casket because there was nothing left to bury after the fire, a fact that Leah’s brother and husband apparently chose to keep from her.
—Andy Swift, TVLine, 1 May 2025
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Matt Cabral, EW.com, 13 Apr. 2025
In September 2006, Cawthon -- in collaboration with police -- was able to get Kari's body exhumed, and an autopsy was conducted.
—Doc Louallen, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2025
The team likewise found no evidence that the body had ever been buried and exhumed, Nerlich added.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 2 May 2025
When Leah allows Athena to exhume her son’s grave, however, the truth comes out — there’s no body in the casket because there was nothing left to bury after the fire, a fact that Leah’s brother and husband apparently chose to keep from her.
—Andy Swift, TVLine, 1 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for exhume
unearth
Verb
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Archaeologists have unearthed a stash of unusually large shoes at the ruins of a first-century military fort along Hadrian’s Wall, a 73-mile (117-kilometer) stone barrier that famously shielded the Roman Empire’s northwestern perimeter from foreign invaders.—
Kameryn Griesser,
CNN Money,
12 July 2025
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Recently, while working to improve the site, archaeologists unearthed a 2,600-year-old tomb that sat unopened — until now.—
Aspen Pflughoeft
July 10,
Miami Herald,
10 July 2025
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“Exhume.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exhume. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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