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We lose a critical piece of our cultural knowledge – and our ability to recognize who we were so we can actually change – when we expurgate anything tricky or objectionable from the record.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 11, 2018

In fact, there had been nothing to expurgate.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 29, 2014

In some cases it might also be a paranoia that they want to expurgate in some way.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2012

An asterisk indicated books in purgatory, redeemable if their sinner-authors would expurgate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Every time one of his children made a sound that was recognizably southern, Bull would expurgate that sound from his child’s tongue on the spot.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Only an expurgated 500-page executive summary has been made public.

From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2019

As Marina Warner wrote in her book Stranger Magic, “Galland transformed his sources, his fluent prose adding politesse and polish. … He expurgated the eroticism that heightens many passages in the original.”

From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2019

“To consent would be an admission that the expurgated parts are not indispensable,” he wrote.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2018

"We did an expurgated edition and every subsequent printing put a little bit back and now it's all there."

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2017

She had gotten used to the nuns, a literature of appropriate sentiments, poems with a message, expurgated texts.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

There was no question of expurgating particular passages.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yossarian was busy expurgating all but romance words from the letters when the chaplain sat down in a chair between the beds and asked him how he was feeling.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

"Happily for historic truth," says Mr. Tylor, "mythic tradition tells its tales without expurgating the episodes which betray its real character to more critical observation."

From Moon Lore by Timothy Harley

So thorough and systematic has been the expurgating during the last century that some of its details are very curious.

From The True Benjamin Franklin by Sydney George Fisher

In answer to this it may be asserted that the French mind was not prepared for a broader field until it had passed through the process of expurgating, refining, drilling, and disciplining.

From Women of Modern France (Illustrated) Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 7 (of 10) by Hugo Paul Thieme