UNEARTHED Synonyms: 7 Similar and Opposite Words

unearthed

verb

past tense of unearth

as in exhumed

to remove from place of burial unearthed a hoard of treasures from the Egyptian tomb

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Recent Examples of unearthed The track won't be unearthed until 2045, when Parton would have been 99. — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026 All of them said that the documents raised major concerns about Towers’ conduct as a researcher and that the journal’s response didn’t do enough to address the issues the university unearthed. — Amy Yurkanin, ProPublica, 24 Aug. 2026 Archaeologists unearthed Zosia, as the skeleton was nicknamed, from an unmarked burial site in 2022 near the village of Pień in northern Poland. — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026 In July 2025, utility workers excavating trenches to expand an underground gas network in Peru's capital unearthed two pre-Incan tombs that were over 1,000 years old. — CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026 On Thursday, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office announced that a volunteer search-and-rescue team had unearthed the remains at Palomar Mountain State Park. — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026 Continue reading … -- POLITICS IVORY TOWER SPY — Harvard-China links unearthed as Congress finds 140 papers co-authored by CCP military universities. — FOXNews.com, 13 Aug. 2026 The Department of Homeland Security plans to buy thousands of the gloves capable of zapping suspects with painful shocks in a no-bid contract, according to federal government purchasing records first unearthed by the Associated Press. — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2026 Exactly one hundred years after the Queen Mother’s nuptials, Kate Middleton unearthed her wedding tiara from the royal vault and selected it for the 2023 state visit of the President of the Republic of South Korea. — Emma Banks, InStyle, 13 Aug. 2026

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exhumed

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On July 9, 1850, President Zachary Taylor became the second president to die in the White House, and the only president to have been exhumed for investigation more than a century after his death.

— Sophie Clausen, PEOPLE, 17 Aug. 2026
Five-year-old Tina Carter waited patiently with her mother Diana in a long line to carefully print her first name on a timecapsule scroll to be exhumed in 2076.

— Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 July 2026

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