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Recent Examples of exhume
Kinman’s body was exhumed and taken to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office, where autopsy results to determine his cause and manner of death are pending.
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Fousia Abdullahi, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Oct. 2025
The health ministry official told CNN that some of the remains appeared to have been exhumed after burial.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025
As recently as 20 years ago, in southern Romania, a man believed to be a vampire was exhumed, and his corpse ritually mutilated.
—Robert Eggers, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
Tales that rely on cheap tricks can be fun, but the ones that exhume their horrors from within powerful ideas endure.
—Big Think, 14 Oct. 2025
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Fousia Abdullahi, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Oct. 2025
The health ministry official told CNN that some of the remains appeared to have been exhumed after burial.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025
As recently as 20 years ago, in southern Romania, a man believed to be a vampire was exhumed, and his corpse ritually mutilated.
—Robert Eggers, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
Tales that rely on cheap tricks can be fun, but the ones that exhume their horrors from within powerful ideas endure.
—Big Think, 14 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for exhume
unearth
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During the 2025 excavation campaign, researchers in Iraq unearthed a monumental building that might transform current understandings of Uruk’s relationship with surrounding regions, a location known as the world’s first metropolis.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Nov. 2025
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Finding Melodee now hinges on detectives unearthing what happened to the girl after she was last seen on October 9.—
Elizabeth Wolfe,
CNN Money,
8 Nov. 2025
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“Exhume.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exhume. Accessed 24 Nov. 2025.
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