expunge
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He's among those seeking to expunge his record in the U.S.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026
He disclaims any effort to reverse or expunge the old case.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
Boebert did not expunge her name from the petition, and instead posted one of the funniest tweets of all time.
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2025
As warmer spotlights go, “It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley” may never fully expunge what maddens and mystifies about the untimely end of troubled souls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025
When the Spanish governor tried to recruit the Hopi to live in missions, their leaders told him not to bother: the epidemic soon would expunge them from the earth.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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The stack of towels should be so crisp and white that it expunges all thought of other users.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2020
It neither expunges his record nor declares that the law that condemned him was unjust in the first place.
From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2020
The law expunges charges for which a person was not found guilty.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 30, 2019
Yet none of this expunges the memory of his brilliance and his audacious creativity.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 26, 2018
Not the misers money, for, while that is locked up, and he hoards, and hoards, and still locks it up, it narrows down the soul, and expunges from it all the milk of human kindness.
From A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren by Charlotte Taylor Blow Charless
North Carolina’s Administrative Office of the Courts said it sends a daily extract of expunged cases to a data analytics center for use by the State Bureau of Investigation and other agencies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
There is no longer any public trace of Helton’s criminal case in the Ohio county court system; certain nonviolent cases are allowed to be sealed or expunged after a set amount of time has passed.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
Even after Friday’s selloff, that indicator remains high, indicating “speculation hasn’t been expunged from the market,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2025
A judge reduced Clint’s felony assault conviction to a misdemeanor, which was later expunged from his record.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2025
She felt obliterated, expunged from the room, and was relieved.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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Still, together, Russia and Iran are responsible for over 11% of the world’s oil production, meaning that expunging them from the global oil trade would be challenging.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026
In addition to creating a pipeline for these workers, it would also start a pathway for expunging the criminal records of those who have successfully completed probation and reentry.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2025
Rep. Ryan Zinke, Montana Republican, also wasn’t sure what expunging an impeachment would actually mean.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 1, 2023
Texas Instruments said in April it expected overstocked customers to continue expunging excess inventory even in the second quarter.
From Reuters ● Jul. 25, 2023
Capitalizing on Mantell’s enfeebled state, Owen set about systematically expunging Mantell’s contributions from the record, renaming species that Mantell had named years before and claiming credit for their discovery for himself.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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