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Recent Examples of exhume
But when the town exhumes the body of the real Sadie Hawkins to unravel the truth behind her killing spree fifty years earlier, a malevolent force returns to the town.
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Jennifer Maas, Variety, 3 Dec. 2025
In order to find out, authorities would have to exhume him for testing.
—Dateline Nbc, NBC news, 26 Nov. 2025
After he was hanged, Guiteau was buried in the jail yard, but a few days later, his body was exhumed.
—Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 12 Nov. 2025
Unfortunately, director Luke Greenfield has exhumed it.
—Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 12 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for exhume
unearth
Verb
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Below, Dyens and Miailhe speak to Deadline about the importance of unearthing human stories amid the tragedy of the World War II era.—
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Another adult mandible and a string of vertebrae turned up in 2008, and part of a child’s mandible was unearthed in 2009.—
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“Exhume.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exhume. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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