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
With a first-round matchup against the Golden Knights or Kings, Demers said “Edmonton just needs to exorcise those demons.”
From Seattle Times • Apr. 18, 2024
In the track “‘Become the Lies,’ Vasquez “tries to exorcise the memory of his absent father, whose spirit lingers doggedly behind him like a shadow,” she wrote.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2024
Luck of some sort came when my maternal grandmother—who had been away in the Shangaan Bantustan attending a ceremony to exorcise evil spirits from a raving mad relative—came back unexpectedly.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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