expunge

Three days before Panettiere’s death, Hickerson attempted to expunge and reduce his past felony charges but was denied by a Los Angeles judge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

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

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

Traces of red just happened to come out with the nurse’s sweat because “the human body is inherently leaky,” Everts writes, “not because sweat is the way your body intentionally expunges toxins.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2021

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

Death expunges crime, and when he comes to life again, it will be with a clean slate.

From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Sir W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert

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

He estimated that about 2,700 people could potentially benefit from the law by either being released from prison or having criminal charges expunged.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

Nyazi said the charges, which did not stem from incidents of physical violence, were dropped and his record was later expunged.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025

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

The letter went on to discuss a few finalities involving insurance and Mr. Kaiserman and to explain that Reggie’s file could be expunged and the court records sealed.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

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

But she wasn’t the only elected official expunging her correspondence during those history-making days.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 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