catharsis

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The catharsis I felt then of finally seeing it after so many decades has not.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2025

Telling her story has also been a "catharsis", she said.

From BBC • Dec. 26, 2025

The good news is that this show will offer new catharsis in a second season that’s already been greenlighted.

From Salon • Dec. 17, 2025

The best songs on the album are rich with such moments of catharsis, where an arrangement builds to an emotionally wrenching peak and Mr. Ellis’s voice carries it through.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025

Adams had expressed his feisty and passionate objections to the Jeffersonian constructions in one last catharsis.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis