purgative
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She’s also central to the female-empowerment sentiment of the series, to which Rapp is a kind of purgative.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Taking out the trash is like administering a purgative to my house.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2019
Sacrifices come in different hues — purgative, nihilistic — but some of the most memorable involve a greater love in which characters selflessly lay down their lives for others.
From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2018
The last act of a Shakespearean tragedy always brings such purgative reckonings.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 29, 2018
Rufus had poured the purgative into his chamber pot and ordered me to tell his father he’d taken it.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
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