The f-word was in common use in the 16th century but not deemed vulgar until the 18th, when it was systematically expunged from printed materials over the next century.
In fact, Harvard Business Review, which publishes research that is often esteemed highly, has said, "Relevance is often systematically expunged from these [scholarly] journals".
Copy editors at the Post were among the first to be expunged from the paper.
Should all award winners ever linked to performance-enhancing drugs be retroactively expunged from the honor rolls?
Might valuable content be effectively expunged from the Internet simply to shield people from shame?
It should thus be entirely expunged from our society.
To his supporters he was proof that the phrase 'birdbrain' should be expunged from the dictionary".
It's terrible to feel that someone you love must forever be expunged from memory and conversation.
Figure 4 The phrase 'Many scientists believe …', long a staple of textbook writers, is seriously misleading for at least three reasons and should be expunged from science writing.
In 1951, Mitchum's case was reviewed, and the conviction was expunged from the record.
