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The Glasgow club will hope to exorcise the disappointment of last season's third-place finish under new manager Derek McInnes.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

The modern West tried to exorcise these demons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 2026

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

In the track “‘Become the Lies,’ Vasquez “tries to exorcise the memory of his absent father, whose spirit lingers doggedly behind him like a shadow,” she wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2024

Or where Ben-Jamin teams up the Crowned Sorceress, Sam O’Mal, to exorcise the vicious spirits that were possessing Hudsonien so he can find happiness again.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

"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

With a voice that can go to the roadhouse, the church or deeply private places, she exorcises troubles with the music’s sheer pleasure.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2019

One "Lord bless us!" of Parson Adams upon the wickedness of the times, exorcises and purges off the mass of iniquity which the world-knowledge of even a Fielding could cull out and rake together.

From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Charles Lamb

"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 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

“And Just Like That” hasn’t entirely exorcised that image, although Anthony has been updated to add something more to the mix than the bracing splash of tartness flavoring Charlotte’s simple syrup personality.

From Salon ● May 29, 2025

What’s odd about Hellebuyck’s latest meltdown is that just a few weeks ago, it appeared as though he’d exorcised his big-game demons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 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

It’s the act of catharsis, the exorcising of emotional demons, that makes “Illinoise” so gripping.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2024

“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

"He himself describes his writing as a way of exorcising demons," with his novels frequently depicting a world knocked off its axis by dark, disturbing forces.

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2023

They were not arresting a man, they were exorcising fear.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy