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He disclaims any effort to reverse or expunge the old case.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

As such, it was their mission to expunge such art from the public memory.

From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2025

Past attempts to expunge loanwords after Korea’s independence from Japan had an element of ritualistic purification.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2025

That was no accident; local leaders saw the new interstate system as a golden opportunity to expunge “blight,” which they claimed acted as a barrier to development.

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2024

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

It neither expunges his record nor declares that the law that condemned him was unjust in the first place.

From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2020

It also expunges isolated misdemeanors once a petition has been filed with the State Bureau of Investigation.

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

Memory is notoriously unreliable, so I am hoping that mine quickly expunges any recollection of “Memory Rings,” an obscure, whimsy-sprinkled dance-theater work about, well, I’m not sure what.

From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2016

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

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

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

In 2020, Gov. Newsom signed Assembly Bill 2147 in order to help get criminal records expunged for nonviolent offenders who participated in the firefighting program.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025

Though the Semitic biblical cosmos toppled the Aristotelian one, the idea of an eternal, unchanging universe was not expunged completely, enduring even to the twentieth century.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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

Texas Instruments said in April it expected overstocked customers to continue expunging excess inventory even in the second quarter.

From Reuters ● Jul. 25, 2023

The expunging of old accounts does not only mean losing access to Gmail.

From New York Times ● May 17, 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