disinter
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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
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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
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
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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
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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 William Chambers
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
Several graves were being disinterred during my visit.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 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
Like those disinterred dead from his childhood that had been relocated to accommodate a highway.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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Another is a pungent work of terror about a cursed man who inexplicably perishes in the village’s crypt, forcing the townspeople to investigate by disinterring the bodies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
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
After the war, American teams began disinterring those remains and trying to identify them.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2022
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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