expunge
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The irony, of course, is Arnold has done his best to expunge his own personal history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 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
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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
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
It also expunges isolated misdemeanors once a petition has been filed with the State Bureau of Investigation.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 30, 2019
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 Charless, Charlotte Taylor Blow
Older videos from dashboard cameras that are still stored on magnetic videotape would also be expunged, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 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
They write between the lines, telling stories that some would prefer to see expunged from the public record.
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2024
Yet when the invaders advanced inland, they left behind a different footprint, one that would never be expunged.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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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
It provides various legal aid services, such as resolving outstanding fines and fees and misdemeanors, expunging convictions and clearing bench warrants, while connecting participants to other much-needed services and job opportunities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 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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