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“Censorship and expurgation whether by government or private groups may seem right in the moment, but the future rarely judges them with favor.”

From Washington Times • Apr. 25, 2022

Much of the ire in the Scrabble community has been about a process that was tilted toward expurgation.

From Slate • Jul. 10, 2020

During the 1990s furor, Steven Alexander, who is white and Jewish, was one of many players who wrote letters opposing any expurgation.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2020

“Speaking as a person of colour,” he wrote, “it actually bothers me that some people seem to be thinking of this expurgation as a ‘magnanimous’ gesture.”

From Slate • Jun. 18, 2020

Only 12 copies of Sir Tristrem were printed in the form in which Scott had intended to publish it, without the expurgation which his friends insisted upon.

From Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature by Ball, Margaret