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
According to the documents, obtained by CNN, Wallen pleaded guilty under a deferral, allowing for the charges to be expunged upon completing his sentence and probation.
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Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
Understanding Clean Slate Laws and Automatic Criminal Record Relief
Clean slate laws seal or expunge certain criminal records after a specified period of time without reoffending.
—Alonzo Martinez, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
While he was released in 2020, Cohen is unlikely to see his record expunged by the returning president in his second, nonconsecutive term because the former attorney testified against Trump in the former and incoming president’s New York state hush money trial.
—John Scott Lewinski, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 29 Nov. 2024
But Hasina’s ouster both expunged his legal travails and presented a late career change as his tormentor’s successor.
—Charlie Campbell, TIME, 21 Nov. 2024
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Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
Understanding Clean Slate Laws and Automatic Criminal Record Relief
Clean slate laws seal or expunge certain criminal records after a specified period of time without reoffending.
—Alonzo Martinez, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
While he was released in 2020, Cohen is unlikely to see his record expunged by the returning president in his second, nonconsecutive term because the former attorney testified against Trump in the former and incoming president’s New York state hush money trial.
—John Scott Lewinski, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 29 Nov. 2024
But Hasina’s ouster both expunged his legal travails and presented a late career change as his tormentor’s successor.
—Charlie Campbell, TIME, 21 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for expunge
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Nearby Altadena, a historically largely Black neighborhood, has essentially been erased from the map.—
Meagan Jordan,
Rolling Stone,
15 Jan. 2025
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The odds are that the response will sit in an internal digital memory buffer for a while and not be immediately erased or discarded.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 2025
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The theory holds that a community that rids itself of petty crime, such as shoplifting, vandalism and trespassing, can eradicate more serious crime because criminals won’t have anywhere to hide.—
JULIE K. BROWN,
Miami Herald,
23 Jan. 2025
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Its achievements include eradicating smallpox and bringing polio to the brink of elimination.—
Raul A. Reyes,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025
Verb
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About a quarter century after slavery was abolished in Puerto Rico (1873), another Afro-Puerto Rican genre emerged known as the plena.—
Vanessa Diaz,
Rolling Stone,
20 Jan. 2025
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Trump said in December that the debt ceiling should be abolished, a position shared by some liberal lawmakers.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
16 Jan. 2025
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This year, however, will be a much more muted affair, as the Palisades and Eaton Fires have destroyed thousands of homes, killed 25 people and forced more than 150,000 residents to evacuate.—
Ethan Millman,
Rolling Stone,
15 Jan. 2025
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Related article Tracking the damage and devastation from the Los Angeles wildfires in maps As many as 12,000 homes, businesses and other structures may have been destroyed in the wildfires raging in Los Angeles County, rendering entire communities ashen piles of rubble.—
Dakin Andone,
CNN,
15 Jan. 2025
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