exorcist

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Recent Examples of exorcist Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Guess saying the bio-exorcist's name twice instead of three times works, too! Emy Lacroix, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025 Director Antonio Negret’s affecting horror movie comes with a blistering message about the soul-crushing corruption of unwanted Christian conversion and packs a punch as controlling mom Candice (Sarah Canning) summons an exorcist to expunge the devil inside her son Elliot (Jett Klyne). Randy Myers, Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for exorcist
Noun
  • The book spans more than six decades and charts the rise of Malone, 84, from an engineering background to his current status as billionaire and media industry seer.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
  • That plan goes to hell when Davina intercepts them and forbids Julia to go, because a seer named Maisri is coming to the castle.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Their society was hierarchical, with those below the caciques known as the nitaínos (elites), behiques (perhaps shamans), and the naborías (usually servants and commoners).
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • They are known as witches or evil shamans with the ability to shape-shift into animals or other people and are both feared and respected.
    Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But the prevalence of the debate proves the manga’s tight grip on the popular imagination – amplified by both soothsayers across Asia and social media – especially in seismically active Japan, where the constant threat of an earthquake or tsunami looms large in the popular imagination.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2025
  • Online soothsayers like Jon Prosser and Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman have long predicted the content of upcoming Apple announcements, citing anonymous sources from within the company to glean glimpses of what’s next.
    Boone Ashworth, Wired News, 18 July 2025
Noun
  • That spells trouble in the Indo-Pacific, a watery region where military leaders and Beltway diviners believe a war over Taiwan could erupt as soon as 2027.
    Colin Demarest, Axios, 8 Mar. 2025
  • The diviner then asks a question in a yes-or-no format while tapping the enclosure to encourage the spider or crab to emerge.
    Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Just four years after graduating, Aschenbrenner is holding private discussions with tech CEOs, investors, and policymakers who treat him as a kind of prophet of the AI age.
    Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2025
  • He was named one of the church's top governing bodies in 1984, and became its leader and prophet in 2018, at the age of 93.
    Richard Hall, Time, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Nearly a third of U.S. adults consult astrology, tarot cards or fortune tellers at least once a year, though the portion of Americans who believe in astrology doesn't appear to have changed much in recent years, according to research from the Pew Research Center.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Hall’s clairvoyant was not your typical fortune teller.
    Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 20 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Webber said that groups, called krewes, organize parades and distribute beads featuring characters such as kings and witch doctors.
    Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
  • While Keaton did not elaborate on the shrunken head room, the first film featured a scene in which Beetlejuice’s own head gets shrunk by a witch doctor who also shrunk the head of a hunter.
    Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 19 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • He was given a chance to do a try-out performance, which was promptly ruled occultist.
    Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 8 Oct. 2025

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“Exorcist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exorcist. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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