exhume

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

Unwilling to leave this photograph in the archive, Thorsson, now an associate professor of English at the University of Oregon, decided to exhume the story behind the image.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2023

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

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 1985 his body was exhumed, and finally in 1992 DNA testing confirmed the body was his.

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

After leaving a floral offering for her great-grandfather, whose remains have yet to be exhumed, Lucia rests in her father's arms.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2025

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025

As soon as the baby was exhumed but before she had an opportunity to formally examine the body, Enstice told an investigator that she believed that the baby had been born alive.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

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