catharsis
Example Sentences
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AI answered that I explain things to readers; Annie helps readers reach catharsis.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026
Telling her story has also been a "catharsis", she said.
From BBC • Dec. 26, 2025
The best songs on the album are rich with such moments of catharsis, where an arrangement builds to an emotionally wrenching peak and Mr. Ellis’s voice carries it through.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025
But once you decide to level with your children with bracing honesty and vulnerability, you’re well on your way to achieving catharsis.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 2, 2025
Zendagi migzara, Afghans like to say: Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end, kamyab, nah-kam, crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.