expurgate

Example Sentences

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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