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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

If Arizona’s 21st century Supreme Court justices wish to exhume an obscure 19th century predecessor from the recesses of history, that’s their prerogative.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 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

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

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

“Chavez Ravine” is a ghost story that exhumes what injustice tried to bury.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2021

“In 1945 our parents went away and left us,” the British narrator begins, and decades later, he exhumes their secrets from the mire of espionage and war.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 13, 2018

“Skull Island” pretty much exhumes the same story conceived for the 1933 classic.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2017

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

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 Douglas, Alan

“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

Most of those exhumed and reburied in Khartoum are identified, Zein al-Abdeen said, by families who buried their loved ones themselves but needed authorities to give them a proper resting place.

From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 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

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