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Recent Examples of unearth
This week, the 125-year-old museum announced that paleontologists had unearthed a 67.5-million-year-old partial dinosaur bone from underneath the institution’s parking lot.
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Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2025
Like Stockton, Layden unearthed a future Hall of Famer by nabbing the forward with the No. 13 pick.
—Mark Puleo, New York Times, 10 July 2025
Archaeologists have unearthed a stash of unusually large shoes at the ruins of a first-century military fort along Hadrian’s Wall, a 73-mile (117-kilometer) stone barrier that famously shielded the Roman Empire’s northwestern perimeter from foreign invaders.
—Kameryn Griesser, CNN Money, 12 July 2025
Recently, while working to improve the site, archaeologists unearthed a 2,600-year-old tomb that sat unopened — until now.
—Aspen Pflughoeft
july 10, Miami Herald, 10 July 2025
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Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2025
Like Stockton, Layden unearthed a future Hall of Famer by nabbing the forward with the No. 13 pick.
—Mark Puleo, New York Times, 10 July 2025
Archaeologists have unearthed a stash of unusually large shoes at the ruins of a first-century military fort along Hadrian’s Wall, a 73-mile (117-kilometer) stone barrier that famously shielded the Roman Empire’s northwestern perimeter from foreign invaders.
—Kameryn Griesser, CNN Money, 12 July 2025
Recently, while working to improve the site, archaeologists unearthed a 2,600-year-old tomb that sat unopened — until now.
—Aspen Pflughoeft
july 10, Miami Herald, 10 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unearth
exhume
Verb
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So, here's to August Wilson, who exhumed and exalted the ordinary people.—
Lydia Price,
People.com,
2 Mar. 2025
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Investigators in Detroit exhumed the bodies of unidentified victims to obtain DNA to help solve cold cases.—
Michael Kaplan,
CBS News,
16 June 2025
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“Unearth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unearth. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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