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Recent Examples of exhume
The remains were exhumed in September 2023 and transferred to the DPAA laboratory.
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Kerry Breen, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2025
Meanwhile, Atkinson’s first head coaching gig was exhuming the Brooklyn Nets from the bottom of the East River.
—Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
In 2019, his body was exhumed and placed on display in the Church of St. Mary Maggiore.
—Emily Harnett, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
None of this is definitive, but exhuming Goldie’s body to collect and test some tissues could rule out (or rule in) a number of their lines of inquiry.
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025
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Kerry Breen, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2025
Meanwhile, Atkinson’s first head coaching gig was exhuming the Brooklyn Nets from the bottom of the East River.
—Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
In 2019, his body was exhumed and placed on display in the Church of St. Mary Maggiore.
—Emily Harnett, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
None of this is definitive, but exhuming Goldie’s body to collect and test some tissues could rule out (or rule in) a number of their lines of inquiry.
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for exhume
unearth
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The find marked the first time archaeologists have unearthed a pharaoh’s tomb since 1922, when King Tutankhamun’s burial site was identified.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 May 2025
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Magnificent murals on Roman-era Israeli tombs unearthed and open to the public Tombs painstakingly restored by the Israel Antiquities Authority in what was Ashkelon under the Roman Empire are now available to visit by the general public.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
26 May 2025
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“Exhume.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exhume. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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