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Recent Examples of exhume
As recently as 20 years ago, in southern Romania, a man believed to be a vampire was exhumed, and his corpse ritually mutilated.
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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
AaronP / Bauer-Griffin / Getty Images That was until 2018, when the DPAA exhumed the rest of the bodies from the USS California from Punchbowl, all unidentified, for further analysis, the group said.
—Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 6 Oct. 2025
What crimes did Ed Gein commit? Between 1947 and 1952, Gein exhumed the bodies of nine women.
—Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
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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
AaronP / Bauer-Griffin / Getty Images That was until 2018, when the DPAA exhumed the rest of the bodies from the USS California from Punchbowl, all unidentified, for further analysis, the group said.
—Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 6 Oct. 2025
What crimes did Ed Gein commit? Between 1947 and 1952, Gein exhumed the bodies of nine women.
—Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for exhume
unearth
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What begins as an act of solitude unfolds into an unexpected encounter with both people and places gradually evolving into a quiet yet intense philosophical exchange that unearths themes of displacement, trauma and renewal.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
20 Oct. 2025
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The degraded image felt authentic, as if unearthed from the past.—
Robert Eggers,
HollywoodReporter,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Exhume.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exhume. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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