as in to erase
to destroy all traces of
time and the weather have expunged any evidence that a thriving community once existed here
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Recent Examples of expunge
In addition to activities, teens will have access to resources such as job training, housing information, and support with expunging criminal records.
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Hannah McIlree,
CBS News,
12 May 2026
Most distressingly to protesters, there is no way to request the DNA samples’ destruction, and the process to get DNA profiles expunged from the database comes with extra costs and could take as long as five years.
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Ashley Belanger,
ArsTechnica,
7 May 2026
Many states have already taken steps such as expunging criminal records.
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Gene Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Apr. 2026
Secure systems like these are often set to expunge questions and answers from their memory once a session is done, so classified information is neither used for later training nor retained in any memory.
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Erik German,
Fortune,
11 Apr. 2026
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Hannah McIlree,
CBS News,
12 May 2026
Most distressingly to protesters, there is no way to request the DNA samples’ destruction, and the process to get DNA profiles expunged from the database comes with extra costs and could take as long as five years.
—
Ashley Belanger,
ArsTechnica,
7 May 2026
Many states have already taken steps such as expunging criminal records.
—
Gene Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Apr. 2026
Secure systems like these are often set to expunge questions and answers from their memory once a session is done, so classified information is neither used for later training nor retained in any memory.
—
Erik German,
Fortune,
11 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for expunge
Recent Examples of Synonyms for expunge
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By the time the boundary issues were partially corrected in the 1960s, both the cemetery and the surrounding Black community had been largely erased from public memory.
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Still, state environmental officials and weather experts say the rainfall deficits dating back to last fall have not been completely erased.
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Incomplete or inappropriate antibiotic courses amplify this effect by exposing bacteria to sub-therapeutic drug concentrations without eradicating them.
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Building new sterile fly production facilities in the Southwest helped eradicate the flies in that region too, and by 1966, the US was declared officially screwworm-free.
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Avila Chevalier survived a deluge of attacks for previous social media posts that called for abolishing the police and prisons.
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Earlier this month, the bloc also released more information about its own plans for abolishing its de minimis exemption on June 30.
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Both victims died in separate mobile homes that were destroyed about two to three miles apart, Bullard said.
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If Iran’s atomic weapons infrastructure was destroyed in this war, funneling hundreds of billions into the country can’t be used to rebuild it.
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“Expunge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expunge. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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