exorcise
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The modern West tried to exorcise these demons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 2026
"I had one song that I needed to exorcise," she says.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2025
Three years wiser with two seasons of college competition steeling her nerves, Chiles put together a stellar qualification Sunday to exorcise her Olympic demons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2024
With a first-round matchup against the Golden Knights or Kings, Demers said “Edmonton just needs to exorcise those demons.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 2024
And he clenched his fists and began to plead the blood, to exorcise the hosts of Hell, but even this motion was like another motion, and at length he fell on his knees to pray.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
"She exorcises herself through the use of song, which was really brilliant to do."
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2025
While it never glorifies slavery or secession, it exorcises a spirit of mourning.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2023
“I really don’t think it exorcises any demons or anything like that. That game is over and has been played.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2021
That suspicion might be nursed in turn by Pierre, a born troublemaker and teller of ugly truths, who briefly exorcises his demons with a jaw-dropping karaoke performance of Sia’s “Champagne.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2017
S. Philip exorcises a Girl possessed of a Demon.
From Fra Bartolommeo by Flora Kendrick
"You will see a change in behaviour... a different consciousness. Something else takes over a person," Syquia said, noting he had personally exorcised a demon only a week earlier.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
But if there were any chance of changing my mind and taking the plunge, watching “Welcome to Derry” has permanently exorcised any phantom longings.
From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2025
Ghosts must always be confronted before they can be exorcised.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2025
But Yates, 32, exorcised those ghosts as he attacked on the brutal ascent to leave Del Toro and Carapaz - the 2019 winner - in his wake.
From BBC ● May 31, 2025
We washed the courtyard; we exorcised the house with smoke and red paper.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
LeBron James has 32 points as the Lakers get a second win in Sacramento in three days, exorcising past demons of being dominated recently by their rivals to the north.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2024
The Ibrox side had harboured hopes of exorcising last season's disfigured continental campaign but were unable to eject the Dutch from the competition in the way they did here last term.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2023
Nya wastes absolutely no time exorcising him from their apartment.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2023
“The humiliation took a firm grip on him and has colored much of his work. He himself describes his writing as a way of exorcising demons,” the Swedish Academy said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2023
They were not arresting a man, they were exorcising fear.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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