exhume
verb (used with object)
to dig (something buried, especially a dead body) out of the earth; disinter.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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Some publishers and writers are exhuming out-of-print Trump biographies published decades ago and slapping new covers and introductions on them.
From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2016