disinterring

verb

present participle of disinter
as in unearthing
to remove from place of burial the Egyptian mummy was carefully disinterred

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Recent Examples of disinterring Pena was charged separately for allegedly disinterring a body and will be back in court to face that count at a later date, the DA said. — Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 19 May 2026
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unearthing
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  • Today, the toad lives in the lowlands of Central America, Mexico and extreme southern Texas, so unearthing it in Los Angeles was quite unusual.
    — Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 5 Aug. 2026
  • The announcement from OpenAI prompted Anthropic to review 141,006 evaluation runs, unearthing three incidents in which Anthropic's models had escaped, the company said.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 31 July 2026
Definition of unearthing

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“Disinterring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disinterring. Accessed 9 Aug. 2026.

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