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At first, the remains of U.S. Army and U.S. Army Air Forces personnel were interred in the Schofield Barracks Cemetery until the American Graves Registration Service disinterred the remains in August 1947.
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Drake Bentley, jsonline.com, 6 Aug. 2025
But 2019, with new forensic techniques, officials had more hope of success, and the remains were disinterred a second time and sent to a laboratory for additional analysis.
—Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 15 July 2025
In January, both women were disinterred for a contemporary forensic analysis after investigators collected DNA samples.
—Craig Shoup, The Tennessean, 7 July 2025
In January 2022, the DPAA disinterred all four sets of remains and taken to the agency's laboratory.
—June 4, CBS News, 4 June 2025
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Drake Bentley, jsonline.com, 6 Aug. 2025
But 2019, with new forensic techniques, officials had more hope of success, and the remains were disinterred a second time and sent to a laboratory for additional analysis.
—Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 15 July 2025
In January, both women were disinterred for a contemporary forensic analysis after investigators collected DNA samples.
—Craig Shoup, The Tennessean, 7 July 2025
In January 2022, the DPAA disinterred all four sets of remains and taken to the agency's laboratory.
—June 4, CBS News, 4 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disinter
unearth
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Or maybe the bots, trained on the humans of Reddit and other social media platforms, will prove me wrong and unearth the real Epstein conspiracy.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
31 Jan. 2026
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Former Leafs director of amateur scouting Wes Clark and current director Mark Leach, with the Leafs scouts, have unearthed some relative gems in four consecutive drafts.—
Joshua Kloke,
New York Times,
31 Jan. 2026
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“Disinter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disinter. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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