exorcise

The modern West tried to exorcise these demons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 2026

I needed to exorcise this thing so it could join the world!

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025

"We start in that world where we're shackled, and then we exorcise it," Taylor explains.

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2025

Both teams can exorcise the 2017 demons, then give us the series we were deprived of in 2017.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2024

I begin drawing what’s in my head, as if maybe by drawing it, it will exorcise the super bugs from my brain.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

"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

In a tearful embrace with De Palma late in the tale, Barrera exorcises Carmen’s pent-up sorrow, convincing us that she is capable of great dramatic nuance, even if the writing doesn’t explore her character’s psychology.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2023

But, if he does, his vanity exorcises the spirit.

From Are You a Bromide? The Sulphitic Theory Expounded and Exemplified According to the Most Recent Researches into the Psychology of Boredom Including Many Well-Known Bromidioms Now in Use by Gelett Burgess

"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 loss has been analysed but not exorcised is his gist.

From BBC ● Feb. 11, 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

But the hand of the professional decorator had exorcised whatever ghosts of the French bourgeoisie might still haunt the thick brick walls of the building.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2024

The Ibrox side had harboured hopes of exorcising last season's disfigured continental campaign but were unable to eject the Dutch from the competition in the way they did here last term.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2023

Mr. Brötzmann described his style as a means of exorcising demons — particularly those of Germany’s crimes against humanity in World War II.

From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2023

“The humiliation took a firm grip on him and has colored much of his work. He himself describes his writing as a way of exorcising demons,” the Swedish Academy said.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2023

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

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy