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exhume

[ig-zoom, -zyoom, eks-hyoom] / ɪgˈzum, -ˈzyum, ɛksˈhyum /


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

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Breaking for health tests, Ruci stayed there until October 7, when judicial authorities agreed to exhume his son's body for toxicology tests.

From Barron's • Oct. 23, 2025

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

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

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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