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expunge

[ik-spuhnj] / ɪkˈspʌndʒ /


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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

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

From Salon ● Jun. 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

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

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

It promotes union and harmony, expunges all selfishness, allays petulant feelings and turbulent passions, destroys peevishness of temper, and makes home-intercourse holy and delightful.

From The Christian Home by Samuel Philips

The judge said at the time that if he completed the terms of his probation, he could reduce the felony conviction to a misdemeanor and have both charges expunged from his record.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 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

So there is no clear legal definition of who belongs on these rosters, let alone guidance on how long officers must remain on these lists or how they can seek to have their names expunged.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 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

Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Immediately, Barkley set about expunging that from his mind.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2024

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


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