uncover
verb
un·cov·er
ən-ˈkə-vər 
uncovered; uncovering; uncovers
2
: to expose to view by removing some covering
3
a
: to take the cover from
b
: to remove the hat from
uncovered his head
4
: to deprive of protection
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Police uncovered a criminal plot.
Archaeologists uncovered the ruins of an ancient city.
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Trying to uncover precisely where the idea that Jennifer Aniston and Barack Obama are in a relationship came from is a tough, if borderline impossible, task.
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Callum Booth, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
Then, the researchers used telescopes at the W. M. Keck and Gemini observatories in Hawaii to uncover more details about the ancient, dead galaxy where no new stars are being formed.
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By being able to compare these planetesimal belts around other stars with our own Edgeworth–Kuiper Belt, which is a frontier currently being explored by pioneers such as the New Horizons mission, astronomers can uncover the secrets that these frozen realms have kept hidden.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 23 Jan. 2025
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Callum Booth, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
Then, the researchers used telescopes at the W. M. Keck and Gemini observatories in Hawaii to uncover more details about the ancient, dead galaxy where no new stars are being formed.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Jan. 2025
In contrast to Schlossberg, others in the Kennedy family have emerged as fierce proponents of efforts to uncover more details about JFK’s death.
—Emily Hallas, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 24 Jan. 2025
By being able to compare these planetesimal belts around other stars with our own Edgeworth–Kuiper Belt, which is a frontier currently being explored by pioneers such as the New Horizons mission, astronomers can uncover the secrets that these frozen realms have kept hidden.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 23 Jan. 2025
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“Uncover.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/uncover. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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