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
Now, the putative deep state will be expunged, along with the expertise and procedures that make effective administration possible.
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Russell Muirhead, Foreign Affairs, 23 Jan. 2025
Many of those pardoned had already completed short jail sentences: Their criminal convictions will be expunged, and they will be released from any ongoing probation requirements.
—Caelyn Pender, The Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2025
If he was charged, the original charges are gone, possibly expunged from his criminal record and no file exists at the courthouse.
—Kallie Cox, Charlotte Observer, 17 Jan. 2025
Due to bills passed by [the Anti-Recidivism Coalition], these guys can now get their sentences reduced, expunging the felonies from their records for their fire service.
—Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025
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Russell Muirhead, Foreign Affairs, 23 Jan. 2025
Many of those pardoned had already completed short jail sentences: Their criminal convictions will be expunged, and they will be released from any ongoing probation requirements.
—Caelyn Pender, The Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2025
If he was charged, the original charges are gone, possibly expunged from his criminal record and no file exists at the courthouse.
—Kallie Cox, Charlotte Observer, 17 Jan. 2025
Due to bills passed by [the Anti-Recidivism Coalition], these guys can now get their sentences reduced, expunging the felonies from their records for their fire service.
—Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for expunge
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This year's storms won't erase looming drought worries across the entire southwestern U.S., experts fear.—
Doyle Rice,
USA TODAY,
21 Feb. 2025
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This relevant and poignant wake-up call warns that one generation can erase a great nation.—
Elizabeth Stanton,
Fox News,
18 Feb. 2025
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President Donald Trump vowed to eradicate any signs of former President Joe Biden in his Department of Justice on Tuesday night.—
Ross O'Keefe,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
19 Feb. 2025
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Agency supporters told Democratic senators earlier this week that the shutdown — along with other administration steps, including revoking USAID’s lease on its Washington headquarters — was really about eradicating USAID before lawmakers or the courts could stop it.—
Ellen Knickmeyer,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Feb. 2025
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But Reagan faced a Democratic House of Representatives that objected, and by 1984, the GOP had abandoned its call for abolishing the department.—
Richard Stengel,
TIME,
15 Feb. 2025
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Moreover, the president has intertwined his calls to abolish the $268 billion bureaucracy with attempts to leverage it to advance his own agenda.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
13 Feb. 2025
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Many other belongings from his tomb are believed to have been relocated due to the flooding that destroyed it.—
Francesca Aton for ArtNews,
Robb Report,
20 Feb. 2025
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Baldoni countersued, accusing Lively, Reynolds and Sloane of seeking to destroy his career.—
Gene Maddaus,
Variety,
20 Feb. 2025
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“Expunge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expunge. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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