exhume

"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

On the precipice of turning 40, somewhere halfway through this marathon of a life, I want to exhume what I feel I’ve abandoned and lost.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2024

“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

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

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

As the low-affect Elliot gradually exhumes his past, says Malek, “You’re forced as an audience member to navigate inside his head, see everything he’s grappled with that becomes that much more telling.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2016

It is called "Milkweed" on account of the white sticky fluid which it exhumes from the broken stems.

From Woodcraft or, How a Patrol Leader Made Good by Alan Douglas

In 1965, his remains were exhumed and brought to Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

"This hearing is what we have been waiting for," Father Flavie Villanueva said after saying a prayer over Joewarski's remains, the 126th body his non-profit group has exhumed as potential evidence.

From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 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

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