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The phrase "successfully expunged" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where something has been completely removed or erased, often in legal or formal situations. Example: "After a thorough review, the court determined that the defendant's record was successfully expunged."
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This vengeful, strutting Mowgli, who puts down an insurrection among his critics ("[He] thrust his dead branch into the fire … and whirled it above his head among the cowering wolves"), has been successfully expunged from all screen versions of the character.
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The co-star of The People versus Larry Flynt will now enter a drug treatment course which, if successfully completed, will see the conviction expunged from her record.
Both Michael and James were eminent Freemasons, though the records of both have apparently been expunged: "James Maybrick's Freemasonry has successfully been kept a secret for 130 years".
(Lest we think that hacking can't happen here, last week a vivid reminder arrived: Michael Gallagher, a reporter who pleaded guilty in 1998 to hacking the internal phone system of Chiquita in pursuit of a story, went to court and successfully petitioned to have his criminal conviction expunged. It's like it never happened, except it did).
After successfully completing the program, defendants will have the opportunity to have their records expunged.
The records were later expunged.
All brand names were expunged.
Should gender be systematically expunged from playthings?
The ghosts of Prohibition had been expunged.
The library expunged the cigarette.
Haywood also had his technical expunged.
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