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We lose a critical piece of our cultural knowledge – and our ability to recognize who we were so we can actually change – when we expurgate anything tricky or objectionable from the record.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 11, 2018

In fact, there had been nothing to expurgate.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 29, 2014

In some cases it might also be a paranoia that they want to expurgate in some way.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2012

An asterisk indicated books in purgatory, redeemable if their sinner-authors would expurgate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Every time one of his children made a sound that was recognizably southern, Bull would expurgate that sound from his child’s tongue on the spot.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Only an expurgated 500-page executive summary has been made public.

From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2019

As Marina Warner wrote in her book Stranger Magic, “Galland transformed his sources, his fluent prose adding politesse and polish. … He expurgated the eroticism that heightens many passages in the original.”

From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2019

The book, which is available as a limited-edition, two-volume box set and a combined, expurgated third version that merges the two as a double-fronted volume, is split into complimentary themes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2018

If ever there were a diva unsuited to the expurgated, down-talking children’s book treatment, it’s Donna Summer.

From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2018

I agreed to go, as I’d heard the players were doing Feltemi’s original and not one of the expurgated versions.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

There was no question of expurgating particular passages.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yossarian was busy expurgating all but romance words from the letters when the chaplain sat down in a chair between the beds and asked him how he was feeling.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

In answer to this it may be asserted that the French mind was not prepared for a broader field until it had passed through the process of expurgating, refining, drilling, and disciplining.

From Women of Modern France (Illustrated) Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 7 (of 10) by Hugo Paul Thieme

If they did, how quickly we could enrich the literary heritage of American children by expurgating the classics of Europe and rewriting them in a style acceptable to the American sense of decency.

From The Book of Gud by Harold Hersey

He became his own diligent self, amassing grain and gold and zealously expurgating for reproduction in bleak chapels that winter a volume of sermons by an Anglican bishop.

From Carnival by Compton MacKenzie