unearthing
Example Sentences
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In his senior year of high school, he found bugs in websites belonging to the Dutch government and reported them via a “bug bounty” program that offered hackers prizes for unearthing security flaws.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
The challenge with long-held silver may be unearthing the “cost basis,” or the amount originally paid, in order to determine the profit that is subject to tax, Weltman said.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 31, 2025
Ms Maiklem has written four books about mudlarking, which was historically a trade of poor Victorians and is now a popular hobby involving unearthing historical artefacts from the silt on river banks.
From BBC • Dec. 23, 2025
The process was meticulous and emotional — unearthing forgotten tapes, restoring brittle footage and returning, again and again, to the question of authorship.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2025
His instinctive genius lay in unearthing patterns—systems of organization—that lay behind the specimens; not in Kingdoms and Orders, but in kingdoms of order that ran through the biological world.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
