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As soon as possible, they plan to return once more to Xonxa, where they will exhume Mr. Mweli and lay him to rest.

From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2020

There is no indication that Mr. Durham will exhume any information that will fundamentally change the understanding of what happened in 2016.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2019

A CBI spokesperson told BBC Hindi that the "CBI has appointed a medical board. If the board recommends that the bodies should be exhumed, then we will exhume the bodies".

From BBC • Jul. 8, 2014

It is the first time Devon and Cornwall Police will exhume a body from religious grounds.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2011

Then, again, in the far future perhaps some industrious antiquary will exhume an awful tail of the present generation that was invented by Mrs. H.B.

From Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 31, October 29, 1870 by Various