exorcise

Example Sentences

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The modern West tried to exorcise these demons.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026

I needed to exorcise this thing so it could join the world!

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025

"We start in that world where we're shackled, and then we exorcise it," Taylor explains.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2025

Both teams can exorcise the 2017 demons, then give us the series we were deprived of in 2017.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2024

She reached her hands into her shirt to massage her chest as if trying to exorcise the pain from her heart.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung