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Recent Examples of exorcist
Since some of the faithful, especially during their first exorcisms, are rather agitated by the evil one and not infrequently thrown to the ground, the exorcist has to be sure that, in case the floor is not made of wood, under the chair of the faithful there is a good carpet.
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Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
That's spot-on here, with Anthony Hopkins' intense performance as a Welsh Jesuit exorcist.
—Michael Lee Simpson, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
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
Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
That's spot-on here, with Anthony Hopkins' intense performance as a Welsh Jesuit exorcist.
—Michael Lee Simpson, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
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
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Agnes is both a seer and healer, preparing natural remedies for the townsfolk to help with ailments and sickness.—
Nathan Smith,
Time,
26 Nov. 2025
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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
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Researchers believe the structures served as elite burial sites for leaders, priests, or shamans, challenging earlier assumptions that Funnelbeaker societies were strictly egalitarian.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
31 Dec. 2025
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By 1901, just seventeen years after contact with the outside world, shamans were cutting their hair, getting baptized, and taking Danish Christian names.—
Ben Taub,
New Yorker,
24 Nov. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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While often presented as the act of using beauty practices to manifest your desires, diviner and spiritual wellness teacher Tatianna Tarot would caution against getting too attached to semantics.—
Essence,
Essence,
23 Nov. 2025
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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
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There are chaotic military bases and open-air markets and mad prophets and scavengers and snipers and some people who’ve managed to establish some twisted sense of normalcy.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
9 Jan. 2026
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Released in 1994, Sátántangó (based on László Krasznahorka’s novel) chronicled an impoverished Hungarian village that becomes seduced by a would-be prophet who has seemingly come back from the dead.—
Tim Grierson,
Rolling Stone,
6 Jan. 2026
Noun
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When the fortune teller’s predictions start to materialize, once cynical Gemma is ready to take a leap of faith.—
Jessica Radloff,
Glamour,
1 Nov. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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 13 Jan. 2026.
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