expunge

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

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

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

Cook expunges all memory of his nearly-but-not-quite getting out the previous over with a Michelin-starred cover drive for four.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 23, 2015

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

York had already filed a request to have the charges expunged Monday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 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

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

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

Immediately, Barkley set about expunging that from his mind.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2024

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