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Recent Examples of expurgate Mr. Jang’s name has been expurgated from all official records in the North. Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2016 The movie’s climactic punch line was repeatedly expurgated and reinstated during previews. J. Hoberman, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for expurgate
censor
Verb
  • Cutting funds relevant to these groups or censoring materials reflecting their experiences deepens their marginalization and chills dissent.
    Laura Backstrom, Scientific American, 8 May 2025
  • These friendships were broken up by violence, censored in films or simply abandoned by women themselves in the face of the dominant patriarchal norms.
    Laura Mills, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2025

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“Expurgate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expurgate. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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