expunged

past tense of expunge

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of expunged Just as the geographical Palestinian homeland must be seized by Zionist forces, all resistance quelled and all Indigenous Palestinians ultimately expelled and silenced forever, so too must any and all electronic trace of support for Palestinian freedom be expunged from the database. Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025 He was convicted and given probation — prosecutors asked for a nine-year prison term — and eventually got the conviction expunged, according to Rosen and court records. Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025 And even with the outcome of Williams’ hearing last Friday leading to the penalty points being expunged from Sainz’s record, the fact that things got so far in the first place highlights the DSG issues. Alex Kalinauckas, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025 Miller completed his probation in March and got his conviction expunged. Gene Maddaus, Variety, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for expunged
Verb
  • After a sleepy start, the Americans came to life throughout the middle third of the game, and erased an early 1-0 deficit to end their October camp on a high note.
    Paul Tenorio, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Many of those drivers could have stemmed or erased their losses simply by waiting for another year or two and paying off some or all of the remaining loan balance, Drury said.
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Lead poisoning, all but eradicated in the West, still harms millions of children in the developing world, with lead-acid battery recycling a key culprit.
    Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • FellinAI‘s first feature, The Sweet Idleness, imagines a world in which machines have eradicated 99% of jobs, leaving humans to a life of leisure.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • However, when your organization was founded less than 45 years after slavery was abolished, when Black women were still being forced to be wet nurses to the very children of those who oppressed them and lynching was a common occurrence below the Mason-Dixon Line?
    Essence, Essence, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The polissyster title was abolished in 1954, and women police officers were officially recognized under the same title as their male counterparts.
    Isadora Wandermurem, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Civilian infrastructure—roads, sewage, electricity, and municipal services—has been destroyed.
    Mohammed R. Mhawish, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2025
  • One police cruiser was destroyed by flames and needed to be towed away from the area, officials said.
    Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2025

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“Expunged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expunged. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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