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The jury at the bombshell sex-trafficking trial against Sean "Diddy" Combs started deliberating Monday following seven weeks of sensation testimony. ... Read full Story
The 49th annual Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks return to the East River on Friday, setting the sky ablaze with a mesmerizing display of color. This year’s show will feature over 80,000 shells launched from four barges surrounding the Brooklyn Bridge near the South Street Seaport, with many public viewing spots available for a prime [...]
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for June 30, 2025 is:
expunge \ik-SPUNJ\ verb
To expunge something is to remove it completely, whether by obliterating it, striking it out, or marking it for deletion. Expunge is most commonly applied in cases in which documentation of something is removed from an official record.
// Due to an error, the charges were expunged from their record.
“... Bland et al. found that an offer to expunge a criminal record after participation in a rehabilitation program reduced crime as well as the measure of harm. This appears to indicate that motivation drives rehabilitation—which is important to consider in judging character in the present.” — Wendy L. Patrick, Psychology Today, 1 Dec. 2024
Did you know?
In medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, a series of dots was used to mark mistakes or to label material that should be deleted from a text, and those deletion dots—known as puncta delentia—can help you remember the history of expunge. Puncta comes from the Latin verb pungere, which can be translated as “to prick or sting” (and you can imagine that a scribe may have felt stung when their mistakes were so punctuated in a manuscript). Pungere is also an ancestor of expunge, as well as a parent of other dotted, pointed, or stinging terms such as punctuate, compunction, poignant, puncture, and pungent.