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Ingrid Rojas Contreras goes on to explore her family’s history as curanderos — South American shamans like her grandfather, whose bones the family decides to disinter in accordance with his spectral request.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2022

Earlier this year, an Arlington official responded, saying the Army did not have the legal authority to disinter Chabrol.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2022

To fully identify graves, remains, and identities, researchers must also gather records, collect oral histories, and possibly disinter bodies — and it's not clear yet if communities will want to take the final painful step.

From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2022

Banaji also said the agency doesn't plan to disinter the remains and try to identify them because it lacks sufficient documentation.

From Fox News ● Aug. 2, 2021

As though he could disinter it by force.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

Back at Sayyida Nafisa cemetery, Iman remains distraught as she disinters her relatives.

From BBC ● May 26, 2023

What is also apparent is that Glam! disinters a past that has never been buried.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 6, 2013

What kind of ideological ghoul disinters the dead and uses them for purposes they did not believe in while they lived?

From Time Magazine Archive

Snapped Connor: "Now Mr. Waugh, in the role of an eager exhumer, disinters the corpse and with busy spade and blazing arclights, goes smartly to work in the graveyard of the past."

From Time Magazine Archive

The regular translator, in fact, is nothing less than a literary ghoul, who lives upon the mangled carcasses of the departed—a mere sack-'em-up, who disinters the dead, and sells their remains for money.

From The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William

Some reports claimed remains housed there had been disinterred.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025

In June 2021, the U.S. disinterred the remains of 652 unidentified Korean War casualties buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii.

From Washington Times ● May 19, 2023

In 2021, the remains were disinterred for testing, and in February of this year, laboratory analysis “and the totality of the circumstantial evidence available” established one set of remains as Carrillo’s, according to the agency.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2023

After approving the request, Veterans Affairs disinterred the body, placed the wooden coffin in a protective fiberglass case and fork-lifted it into the bed of Mr. Walls’s Ford F-350 pickup truck, Mr. Walls said.

From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2023

Like those disinterred dead from his childhood that had been relocated to accommodate a highway.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

The Army is disinterring the remains of eight Native American children who died at the government-run Carlisle Indian Industrial School, and plans to transfer custody to the children’s closest living relatives.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 21, 2022

The celebration is believed to have its roots in the Uru Chipaya custom of disinterring the bodies of loved ones at the one-year anniversary of their death.

From Reuters ● Nov. 9, 2021

Meikle said the sheriff identified the body as that of Dickens the day after Frankie Kerrigan surfaced, before disinterring the body.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2018

He rounded out the end of the war in the Philippines, where he and his outfit were tasked with disinterring the bodies of American servicemen killed on the island.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 10, 2016

In the years between the First World War and the disinterring of Luigi Boccherini’s bones, music’s family had expanded prolifically.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall