purgative
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She’s also central to the female-empowerment sentiment of the series, to which Rapp is a kind of purgative.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
This is the opposite of escapism, and while I can’t say “Bad Luck Banging” is a lot of fun, it has a purgative, present-tense power.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2021
The juxtaposition of such a technologically enabled act — I recorded, therefore I was — and the most basic and purgative of elements invites irony where it is least wanted.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2018
The last act of a Shakespearean tragedy always brings such purgative reckonings.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 29, 2018
As if the' air w'ere a purgative, his valve opened.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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