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disinter

[dis-in-tur] / ˌdɪs ɪnˈtɜr /
VERB
exhume
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Ingrid Rojas Contreras goes on to explore her family’s history as curanderos — South American shamans like her grandfather, whose bones the family decides to disinter in accordance with his spectral request.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 2, 2022

Earlier this year, an Arlington official responded, saying the Army did not have the legal authority to disinter Chabrol.

From Washington Post Jun. 28, 2022

To fully identify graves, remains, and identities, researchers must also gather records, collect oral histories, and possibly disinter bodies — and it's not clear yet if communities will want to take the final painful step.

From Salon Apr. 13, 2022

Banaji also said the agency doesn't plan to disinter the remains and try to identify them because it lacks sufficient documentation.

From Fox News Aug. 2, 2021

As though he could disinter it by force.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

Back at Sayyida Nafisa cemetery, Iman remains distraught as she disinters her relatives.

From BBC May 26, 2023

What is also apparent is that Glam! disinters a past that has never been buried.

From The Guardian Feb. 6, 2013

Snapped Connor: "Now Mr. Waugh, in the role of an eager exhumer, disinters the corpse and with busy spade and blazing arclights, goes smartly to work in the graveyard of the past."

From Time Magazine Archive

What kind of ideological ghoul disinters the dead and uses them for purposes they did not believe in while they lived?

From Time Magazine Archive

Poetry elevates some of our emotions, disinters others from the rubbish of the world, heightens what is mean, transforms what is unsightly, Clothing the palpable and the familiar With golden exhalations of the dawn.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 443 Volume 17, New Series, June 26, 1852 by Chambers, William

Some reports claimed remains housed there had been disinterred.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 17, 2025

Allen was among 388 service members whose remains went unidentified before a 2015 program in which bodies were disinterred for DNA analysis.

From Seattle Times Jul. 18, 2023

The leader of the Falange was disinterred in a private ceremony in presence of his family, away from public scrutiny.

From Washington Times Apr. 24, 2023

In 2021, the remains were disinterred for testing, and in February of this year, laboratory analysis “and the totality of the circumstantial evidence available” established one set of remains as Carrillo’s, according to the agency.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 28, 2023

Like those disinterred dead from his childhood that had been relocated to accommodate a highway.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

The Department of Defense had undertaken the arduous task of disinterring and sorting through the commingled skeletons.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 8, 2024

Protocols for disinterring, sampling and reburying human remains were established in consultation with local religious leaders and community stakeholders.

From New York Times Mar. 29, 2023

The process of disinterring the remains for DNA analysis began in 2015, and since then 355 have been identified, according to the Navy.

From Seattle Times Sep. 18, 2022

The celebration is believed to have its roots in the Uru Chipaya custom of disinterring the bodies of loved ones at the one-year anniversary of their death.

From Reuters Nov. 9, 2021

In the years between the First World War and the disinterring of Luigi Boccherini’s bones, music’s family had expanded prolifically.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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