exorcise
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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
“We haven’t forgotten that loss because it ended our season and he helped us exorcise that demon.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2026
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
And I had heard that Ultima could lift the curses laid by brujas, that she could exorcise the evil the witches planted in people to make them sick.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
"She exorcises herself through the use of song, which was really brilliant to do."
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2025
Tucker, the more primal singer of the two, exorcises deeper emotions when she sings lead, as on the eerie and affecting leadoff track “Hell.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2024
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
Finis! the potent word that exorcises from the house of life the haunting shadow of fate.
From Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
"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
Now he's got the landmark game on the football calendar - and he's exorcised his VAR demons.
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
At the Beijing Games, he set the world record for the short program, exorcised the demons from 2018 and became the United States’ first Olympic gold medalist in men’s singles in 12 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 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
We washed the courtyard; we exorcised the house with smoke and red paper.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
It’s the act of catharsis, the exorcising of emotional demons, that makes “Illinoise” so gripping.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2024
Wiktor can help some of the locals by exorcising their demons, but he can also summon salutors to help him fight the imperial Russian soldiers who control the city.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2024
They could yet take the series 3-1, exorcising the demons of a 2-2 draw in 2019 when they were the better side and should have won.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2023
For me, this was a way of exorcising this evil.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2023
They were not arresting a man, they were exorcising fear.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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