unearth

Example Sentences

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Researchers in Costa Rica have unearthed fossils from a mastodon and a giant sloth that lived as many as 40,000 years ago, officials announced Friday, calling it the biggest such find here in decades.

From Barron's

A joint BBC News/New Statesman investigation into maternity care at the trust has unearthed their stories.

From BBC

“Because they’re trying to dig up the past to put it in display boxes. I’m trying to unearth magic.”

From Literature

The former prosecutor has documented numerous previously unknown Credit Suisse accounts linked to Nazi officials and unearthed the financial trajectory of many Nazis who fled to Argentina.

From Barron's

But it now transpires that Gordon Brown had asked the cabinet secretary to undertake a similar exercise as long ago as last September - although it unearthed nothing.

From BBC