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"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

Yet commonalities remain: One remedy for vampirism, found on several continents, was to exhume the undead corpse and to drink what was left of its blood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025

If Arizona’s 21st century Supreme Court justices wish to exhume an obscure 19th century predecessor from the recesses of history, that’s their prerogative.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2024

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

Shady could get almost nothing to exhume an almost- unknown pile of rocks on the coast.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

“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

“Chavez Ravine” is a ghost story that exhumes what injustice tried to bury.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2021

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

BOROVE, Ukraine—Earlier this summer, a small crowd gathered around six freshly exhumed human skeletons protruding from the ground on the edge of a sunflower field in Ukraine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Most of those exhumed and reburied in Khartoum are identified, Zein al-Abdeen said, by families who buried their loved ones themselves but needed authorities to give them a proper resting place.

From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026

So Natalia had her husband's grave exhumed and Vitaly's remains moved hundreds of miles to Ukraine's capital.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 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

They burned it in one of the pots, and the stench was like a corpse exhumed for its bones too soon.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

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