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Recent Examples of unearthed
His company saw a 2,408% increase in flaring immediately following new wells being drilled and a 692% increase in flaring overall in 2023, according to emails unearthed by environmental watchdog organization Fieldnotes and shared with ProPublica and Inside Climate News.
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ProPublica, 4 Sep. 2025
Archaeologists recently unearthed two churches in Egypt that are over 1,500 years old, offering rare evidence of Christianity’s rise in the country's Western Desert.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 31 Aug. 2025
While the raid inadvertently unearthed the Ohtani-Mizuhara ordeal, the mushrooming scandal obscured a more complex, far-reaching, and ongoing drama.
—David Amsden, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025
And, in Patagonia at the time, that was dinosaurs – from medium-sized herbivores to smaller carnivores – whose fossils have also been unearthed in the same rock layers.
—New Atlas, 27 Aug. 2025
Leaks about this lesson feature emerged in August when Android Authority unearthed it in a new version of the app and gave it a try.
—Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 26 Aug. 2025
One of the documents that Champagne unearthed was a contract between the auction house and Drahi’s personal holding company, under which Sotheby’s—like other Altice subsidiaries—would have to pay for the privilege of being owned.
—Sam Knight, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Behind one of these homes a ghastly discovery has recently been made and is now being unearthed.
—Greg Dixon, NPR, 25 Aug. 2025
New claims about Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson‘s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein has been unearthed from a new biography about the Duke of York.
—Stylecaster Editors, StyleCaster, 22 Aug. 2025
ProPublica, 4 Sep. 2025
Archaeologists recently unearthed two churches in Egypt that are over 1,500 years old, offering rare evidence of Christianity’s rise in the country's Western Desert.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 31 Aug. 2025
While the raid inadvertently unearthed the Ohtani-Mizuhara ordeal, the mushrooming scandal obscured a more complex, far-reaching, and ongoing drama.
—David Amsden, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025
And, in Patagonia at the time, that was dinosaurs – from medium-sized herbivores to smaller carnivores – whose fossils have also been unearthed in the same rock layers.
—New Atlas, 27 Aug. 2025
Leaks about this lesson feature emerged in August when Android Authority unearthed it in a new version of the app and gave it a try.
—Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 26 Aug. 2025
One of the documents that Champagne unearthed was a contract between the auction house and Drahi’s personal holding company, under which Sotheby’s—like other Altice subsidiaries—would have to pay for the privilege of being owned.
—Sam Knight, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Behind one of these homes a ghastly discovery has recently been made and is now being unearthed.
—Greg Dixon, NPR, 25 Aug. 2025
New claims about Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson‘s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein has been unearthed from a new biography about the Duke of York.
—Stylecaster Editors, StyleCaster, 22 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unearthed
exhumed
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Gein was a notorious murderer in the 1950s who not only went on a killing spree but also exhumed graves to use human remains to craft household items and clothing.—
Carson Blackwelder,
People.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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Detective's exhumed the woman's body and her DNA was sent to Astrea Forensics.—
Michelle Del Rey,
USA Today,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Unearthed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unearthed. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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