Example Sentences

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Fresh research occasionally surfaces new runs and expunges others.

From New York Times • May 25, 2021

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

But as Noack wants to prove the house of Odysseus, with its upper chambers, to be a late peculiar house, he, of course, expunges the two mentions of girls' upper chambers in the Odyssey.

From Homer and His Age by Lang, Andrew