exorcise

To fully exorcise himself of Gein after completing the show, Hunnam traveled to Plainfield, Wis., to visit his grave site and say a final goodbye.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

Unlike Supergirl, the child thinks it’s healthier to exorcise — not imbibe — one’s heartache.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

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

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

"She exorcises herself through the use of song, which was really brilliant to do."

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2025

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

That suspicion might be nursed in turn by Pierre, a born troublemaker and teller of ugly truths, who briefly exorcises his demons with a jaw-dropping karaoke performance of Sia’s “Champagne.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2017

And when they are about to bathe, the god Namatua, who rules the city of Ndelakurukuru, exorcises the water.

From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Basil Thomson

"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

The 28-year-old has been haunted by a comment he made as he struggled in a game against the Patriots in 2019, when he said "I'm seeing ghosts", but Darnold has now exorcised those demons.

From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2026

“And Just Like That” hasn’t entirely exorcised that image, although Anthony has been updated to add something more to the mix than the bracing splash of tartness flavoring Charlotte’s simple syrup personality.

From Salon ● May 29, 2025

What’s odd about Hellebuyck’s latest meltdown is that just a few weeks ago, it appeared as though he’d exorcised his big-game demons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2025

He had even constructed a model to show how they might work, and Mrs. Coulter had seen the object before it was exorcised and burned.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

On Sunday, he played those three holes par, par and birdie, going some distance toward exorcising the demons of 2011.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026

It’s the act of catharsis, the exorcising of emotional demons, that makes “Illinoise” so gripping.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2024

Dauwalter had already returned to win Run Rabbit Run the previous year, finally exorcising the ghost of 2012, but her victory in 2017 is the stuff of absurd legend.

From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2024

If he is exorcising demons or working through his own emotions about the war through his painting or his work with veterans, he would never say so and would surely scoff at the idea.

From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2023

They were not arresting a man, they were exorcising fear.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy