exhume
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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
“I watch a lot of true crime, and they exhume bodies all the time. It’s not unusual,” she blithely says.
From Salon • Mar. 26, 2024
Wade’s family members and attorneys won the right to exhume his body Monday, but they did not get to see the exhumation because it took place hours before county officials said it would.
From Washington Times • Nov. 16, 2023
Shady could get almost nothing to exhume an almost- unknown pile of rocks on the coast.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing exhume
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