expunge

The irony, of course, is Arnold has done his best to expunge his own personal history.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026

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

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

The stack of towels should be so crisp and white that it expunges all thought of other users.

From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2020

It neither expunges his record nor declares that the law that condemned him was unjust in the first place.

From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2020

It also expunges isolated misdemeanors once a petition has been filed with the State Bureau of Investigation.

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

Death expunges crime, and when he comes to life again, it will be with a clean slate.

From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Sir W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert

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

Concerns about the sustainability of the AI investment boom and Thursday’s tepid jobs report haven’t been expunged, but they’ve been delayed, much like the red card of the U.S. team’s leading goal scorer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

Older videos from dashboard cameras that are still stored on magnetic videotape would also be expunged, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2026

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

Though the Semitic biblical cosmos toppled the Aristotelian one, the idea of an eternal, unchanging universe was not expunged completely, enduring even to the twentieth century.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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

It provides various legal aid services, such as resolving outstanding fines and fees and misdemeanors, expunging convictions and clearing bench warrants, while connecting participants to other much-needed services and job opportunities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2024

Rep. Ryan Zinke, Montana Republican, also wasn’t sure what expunging an impeachment would actually mean.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 1, 2023

Texas Instruments said in April it expected overstocked customers to continue expunging excess inventory even in the second quarter.

From Reuters ● Jul. 25, 2023

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