exorcise
Example Sentences
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The modern West tried to exorcise these demons.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026
"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
Graham says part of “Gareth’s gentle journey” has been to exorcise the “toxic tribalism” the team can attract.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 21, 2023
From the austerity and tranquility of her medieval world, the penetrating gaze of this legendary Sybil of a holy nun would exorcise the horrors which materialize before our eves in the name of television.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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