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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

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

Kathleen Enstice, a forensic pathologist who worked for the state, was summoned to exhume the infant's body.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

“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

She exhumes two fictional outtakes from discarded novels, including one about a linguistics scholar that she wrote more than 20 years ago.

From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 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

In this captivating double portrait, Cumming exhumes the little that is known of the Spanish artist and courtier through the peculiar tale of one of his most passionate devotees.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 4, 2016

Exhumā′tion, act of exhuming: disinterment; Exhum′er, one who exhumes.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

“Resurrectionists” – body snatchers – exhumed the recently buried, disproportionately targeting the poor, the institutionalized and those without family protection or the financial means to guard graves.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 21, 2026

In the year since the army recaptured Khartoum, authorities have exhumed and reburied "around 28,000 people", Hisham Zein al-Abdeen, head of forensic medicine at Sudan's health ministry, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026

New England’s last supposed vampire was exhumed in 1892.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025

One pathologist had traced a "highly toxic substance", cyhalothrin, on both the body's remains and the soil where his body was exhumed.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 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