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Recent Examples of exorcism
In my case, a boy named Ben is forced to participate in a Buddhist exorcism to remove the feminine spirit from his body.
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Literary Hub,
7 May 2026
Nothing mends a friendship quite like an exorcism.
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Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
26 Apr. 2026
In the film, the sisters nullify the hex by holding an exorcism on the spirit of Gillian’s abusive boyfriend, whom the sisters previously killed.
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Katie Simons,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Apr. 2026
The most frustrating moment in the movie arrives when Sam, in her studio, helps relieve Mary of the ghost by way of a homemade exorcism, complete with chalk circle, candles, and a pentagram.
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Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
16 Apr. 2026
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Literary Hub,
7 May 2026
Nothing mends a friendship quite like an exorcism.
—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
26 Apr. 2026
In the film, the sisters nullify the hex by holding an exorcism on the spirit of Gillian’s abusive boyfriend, whom the sisters previously killed.
—
Katie Simons,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Apr. 2026
The most frustrating moment in the movie arrives when Sam, in her studio, helps relieve Mary of the ghost by way of a homemade exorcism, complete with chalk circle, candles, and a pentagram.
—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
16 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for exorcism
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Starring Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed, the film tells the story of Urbain Grandier, a 17th-century Catholic priest who was burned at the stake over accusations of witchcraft.
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Hundreds of true-crime pamphlets circulated, adorned with woodcuts depicting horrific acts of dismemberment, torture, and witchcraft.
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Come to Eternia, the mythical home of flying dragon-like creatures, and swords, and sorcery, and spaceships — really, all the stuff a 12-year-old science fiction fanatic loves.
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Directed by Travis Knight and based on the Mattel media franchise, the sword-and-sorcery epic stars Nicholas Galitzine alongside Camila Mendes, Jared Leto, and Idris Elba, launching in over 300 locations on Wednesday June 3.
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The movie, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary on May 3, showed us how to use our magic and morals to decide whether to embrace necromancy and the occult.
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Hedva’s practice cooks magic, necromancy, and divination together with mystical states of fury and ecstasy, and political states of solidarity and disintegration.
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The second part centers on tarot as a tool of divination and creative inspiration, beginning with the iconic 1909 Rider-Waite-Smith deck and moving on to art works from the twentieth century into the present day.
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Diamond Seas presents plunderphonics as a form of divination, akin to spirit photography or automatic writing.
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With some mathematical wizardry, the researchers described a periodic surface whose elements capture discrete components of polarized wavefronts.
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Thank goodness for Zach Abrahams, a young Capetonian chef who started in the sister Whichaway Camp, who’s now performing edible wizardry in Echo’s kitchen.
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Enter kitchen witchery, a practice rooted in modern witchcraft that blends intention, ritual, and everyday cooking.
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Ravn beautifully brings us inside these circles of care, which to many outsiders might have seemed as strange as witchery.
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But there was a unique magic to the '90s after-school appointment TV.
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Martha Stewart, who built her hosting empire through best-selling books, television shows, home goods lines and her magazine Martha Stewart Living, said hosts are scaling back without losing the magic.
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Sure, the Oscar-winning makeup helps transform the actor into Cheney, but the voice and petulance are all Bale, whose conjuring of this scoundrel ought to trigger PTSD for anyone who survived the Dubya years.
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In Pilkington’s conjuring, liberalism was a potent ideology that arose against monarchy and aristocracy and sought to rationalize social and political relationships.
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“Exorcism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exorcism. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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