exhume

The government sought to exhume Dossett’s body for a more-thorough autopsy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

"The safest place to keep the DNA samples is buried separately in the ground, and marked clearly," Zein al-Abdeen told AFP, "or we'll exhume the bodies again later."

From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026

She informs Pozner that the only way she’ll believe him is if he agrees to exhume Noah’s body.

From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2024

She is working with Mexico City’s attorney general’s office to exhume bodies of victims of hate crimes and move them to the mausoleum.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2023

Kathleen Enstice, a forensic pathologist who worked for the state, was summoned to exhume the infant's body.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

“The Marriage Portrait” exhumes a similarly fated youngster: Lucrezia, the daughter of Cosimo I de’ Medici, the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2022

Still, founded on prodigious research, it convincingly impugns key tenets of Bugliosi’s narrative and exhumes a trove of provocative data.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2019

In “Insurrecto,” she exhumes this episode to conduct a ferocious, censorious and, yes, comic assault on received ideas about history and heroism, art and exploitation, and the ethics of narrative.

From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2018

It exhumes a specifically French struggle between communal identity and ethnic difference, kindled by the Dreyfus Affair a century ago.

From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2017

Exhumā′tion, act of exhuming: disinterment; Exhum′er, one who exhumes.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

In 1985 his body was exhumed, and finally in 1992 DNA testing confirmed the body was his.

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

The team analyzed the DNA of 13 French soldiers exhumed in 2002 from a burial site in Vilnius, Lithuania, uncovered during archaeological excavations led by the Aix-Marseille University group.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2025

After leaving a floral offering for her great-grandfather, whose remains have yet to be exhumed, Lucia rests in her father's arms.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2025

Someone who exhumed a recent interment without that knowledge might well have discovered something difficult to explain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025

Like so many cold, weak people, when faced at last by the incontrovertible disaster she exhumed from somewhere a sort of fortitude, strength.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

Shortages in material and equipment — including body bags — meant that exhuming and reburying all the remaining corpses around Khartoum exceeded his agency’s resources, al-Abidin said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026

Many found a city with barely functioning services, their homes destroyed and neighbourhoods pockmarked by makeshift cemeteries authorities are now exhuming.

From Barron's ● Jan. 11, 2026

By exhuming the past, he hopes to redeem it and salvage, if only briefly, all he has lost.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

This is in addition to the voluminous effort spanning six nights and 12 hours that reasserts, among many truths, Burns’ dedication to exhuming the rocky facts buried underneath convenient mythmaking.

From Salon ● Nov. 15, 2025

It was on my hands and in my mouth, and my food crackled with it; my eyes were full of it, after days of examining it, exhuming stones like bone.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson