cathartic
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She said doing the show was "very cathartic" and she wanted to help other young people with similar health problems.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
Like Dickens’s classic fable, this, too, is a moving and cathartic story of forgiveness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
“Repair is not this fully cathartic moment,” says Rachel Haack, a licensed marriage and family therapist in Reno, Nev., who works with families dealing with estrangement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
Joe Wengert co-created “Kevin” with ex-girlfriend/series voice actor Aubrey Plaza as a cathartic thought experiment about their actual pet cat, Kevin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
She says it’s cathartic, it sets her up for a good weekend, and because she cleans the house aerobically, it means she doesn’t have to go to the gym.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
Castor oil and calomel are drastic cathartics, should be taken only on advice of a physician.
From Time Magazine Archive
Appendicitis is another situation where cathartics may not be used without discretion.
From Time Magazine Archive
Children and infants present difficulties because they cannot explain their com plaints and because parents too often give destructive cathartics.
From Time Magazine Archive
Eighteen years ago, before the profession in general had really begun its modern investigation of cathartics, the American Medical Association published a handbook on the subject written by Dr. Fantus.
From Time Magazine Archive
For which end blood-lettings, emetics, cathartics, blisters, and setons, also sometimes coolings of the head are to be employed.
From Medica Sacra or a Commentary on on the Most Remarkable Diseases Mentioned in the Holy Scriptures by Richard Mead
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