exorcises

variants also exorcizes
present tense third-person singular of exorcise

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Verb
  • Try the Storm Chaser, which sends you into a zero-gravity fall, catches you in a funnel, then discards you into a pool below.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 18 Feb. 2026
  • At the same time, Gans discards the psychological and spatial logic that gave meaning to the original telling’s dream-like sense of disorientation.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 23 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • An oil tanker unloads crude oil at a terminal at the port in Qingdao, in China's eastern Shandong province on March 11, 2026.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 27 Mar. 2026
  • After his dreams are all but dashed, Shah unloads on himself.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 25 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • News 12 reported that the boy's body had been discovered at a waste collection center in Stamford, having been brought there by a truck that dumps trash and recyclables there.
    Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 23 June 2026
  • Towns dumps the ball off to Mitchell Robinson for his easiest two points of the night.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 16 May 2026
Verb
  • Meta ditches Ray-Ban and adds Kylie Jenner.
    Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 24 June 2026
  • Fulda all but ditches his ambitious partner Chaton (Vincent Dedienne), in order to team up with Stéphane to get to the bottom of the endless pig-slaughter, and to put paid to the local superstition that Brun’s ghost may be the culprit.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 16 June 2026
Verb
  • The deeper the water, the sooner a vehicle loses traction on the road.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 27 June 2026
  • Sweden loses key piece The first half was a sloppy slugfest as both teams tried to use their physicality to assume control.
    Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 June 2026
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