unearth
Example Sentences
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His evocative depictions of forest scenes are stunning in their own right, hypnotically expressive and made to tickle your id, unearthing deeply rooted primal sensations.
I pushed them off my lap as if I had unearthed a scorpion.
From Literature
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"The exceptional lungfish skull unearthed in 410 million-year-old rocks in Yunnan gives us major insights into the rapid evolutionary diversification between the early-, mid- and late Devonian."
From Science Daily
Sinha said Valor was inspired by U.S. shale drillers, who unearthed an abundance of domestic oil and natural gas from deposits that were always known but had been beyond the reach of profitable drilling.
Digging deeper, however, unearths a defensive tenor to Monday’s rally, which was paced by megacap tech, healthcare, and industrial stocks that was paired with a big bid for U.S.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.