exorciser

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Noun
  • Authorities say Chasing Horse spent nearly 20 years abusing his position as a Lakota medicine man to take advantage of women and girls.
    Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 28 Apr. 2026
  • During his trial in January, prosecutors said the former actor weaponized his reputation as a Lakota medicine man, exploiting cultural traditions and spiritual beliefs to prey on Indigenous women and girls.
    Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Blacks were not treated by white doctors in all-white hospitals but were sent to inferior facilities to be treated by men who were little more than witch doctors.
    Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 3 May 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • That sentiment was echoed by Monsignor Stephen Rossetti, formerly an exorcist with the Archdiocese of Washington.
    Krysta Fauria, Fortune, 12 June 2026
  • The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, DC, has removed a priest as an exorcist and cut ties with the priest's nonprofit organization over comments the priest made about UFOs and demons.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 4 June 2026
Noun
  • He has been accused by other Christian groups as a false prophet or a cult leader.
    ABC News, ABC News, 24 June 2026
  • Seven Mountains has brought the language of spiritual warfare and demon-fighting into the mainstream of evangelicalism, through a network of pastors who view themselves as prophets and apostles engaged in a battle against evil secular forces.
    Eliza Griswold, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
Noun
  • Not in seers, not in sibyls, not in spirits from the great beyond.
    Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026
  • Post-Homeric legends relate that after returning to Ithaca Odysseus traveled to northern Greece to appease Poseidon, having descended to the underworld in the Odyssey to consult the seer Tiresias on the manner of expiation.
    Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 12 June 2026
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“Exorciser.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exorciser. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.

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