exhume

The government sought to exhume Dossett’s body for a more-thorough autopsy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

"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

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

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

Exhaustively researched, gorgeously crafted and presciently timed, “The Lilac People” exhumes a buried history that could leave us mourning our lost democracy if we don’t learn from, and act on, its tragic lessons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2025

“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

He’s also working on a memoir, titled “Seek, Memory,” in a nod to Vladimir Nabokov, that exhumes memories he has repressed for most of his adult life.

From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2021

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

Under the mist that the sun illumes, She, where her terraces arise And taper to the terraced skies, Herself as from a dream exhumes.

From Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell 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

"This hearing is what we have been waiting for," Father Flavie Villanueva said after saying a prayer over Joewarski's remains, the 126th body his non-profit group has exhumed as potential evidence.

From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026

Someone who exhumed a recent interment without that knowledge might well have discovered something difficult to explain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025

They burned it in one of the pots, and the stench was like a corpse exhumed for its bones too soon.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

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