expunge
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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
Inside the trailer, people can learn how to expunge their records and handle eviction cases, along with more general civic lessons about due process.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025
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
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
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
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
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
He said he got his record expunged in 2016, but — again — it was too late.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 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
The letter went on to discuss a few finalities involving insurance and Mr. Kaiserman and to explain that Reggie’s file could be expunged and the court records sealed.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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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
In addition to creating a pipeline for these workers, it would also start a pathway for expunging the criminal records of those who have successfully completed probation and reentry.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2025
Texas Instruments said in April it expected overstocked customers to continue expunging excess inventory even in the second quarter.
From Reuters ● Jul. 25, 2023
She has left the assassination business and joined a church, where she applies her screwball energy and guileless vanity to the job of being baptized and expunging her sins.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2022
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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