exorcise
Example Sentences
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But our prisons have spent decades committed to punishment and incapacitation, and care has long been exorcized from the playbook.
From Slate • May 11, 2023
I feel like he was unable to survive and he had to go to a dark place and sort of exorcized these demons to a certain degree, or grapple with his curse.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2022
And I think that that’s something I’ve struggled with throughout my life, and I feel I’ve completely exorcized those demons now.
From Slate • Feb. 18, 2019
A real ghost can be fled or exorcized: Leave the haunted house, ditch the cursed talisman, confess that terrible thing you did last summer.
From Slate • Aug. 30, 2018
The four represent the spirits of the four elements, fire, water, air, and earth, which Faust successively conjures, so that, if the monster belongs in any respect to this mundane sphere, he may be exorcized.
From Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe by Brooks, Charles Timothy
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