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Recent Examples of unearthedAncient wine factory unearthed after 1,600 years underground.—FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2025 The tool unearthed at Łysa Góra in Mazovia had a wooden handle and one end was shaped like a blade that transitioned into a spike, according to archaeologists.—Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 29 Oct. 2025 The nearly complete fossil skeleton was unearthed from the Haughton Crater, located on Devon Island, Nunavut, in northern Canada.—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 28 Oct. 2025 But the investigation unearthed evidence that, contrary to the manufacturers’ claims, the bags were not generally recyclable or recyclable within California, as SB 270 stipulates.—Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 22 Oct. 2025 The degraded image felt authentic, as if unearthed from the past.—Robert Eggers, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025 However, previous studies that used fMRI and electrodes unearthed some of the deeper mechanisms from which such arousal signals might arise.—Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 17 Oct. 2025 Researchers unearthed these findings after poring over thousands of school board policies across more than 400 school districts statewide.—Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 13 Oct. 2025 Authentic personal brands are not created, they are unearthed.—William Arruda, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unearthed
exhumed
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The town was established after San Francisco banned new burials and exhumed and relocated bodies to Colma in the early 1900s.
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Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
25 Oct. 2025
Soon after Smith's death was officially ruled a homicide by SLED on March 21, 2023, his body was exhumed and given a second autopsy.
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