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Recent Examples of exorcism
During the exorcism, auxiliaries must be vigilant about their words and their behavior.
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Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
In the exorcism movies, Crowe plays the guy who fears being possessed.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2025
The exorcism of historical Georgia pain — and recent pain — against its nemesis.
—Seth Emerson, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2025
Her Moody Center show was part emotional tribunal, part teen exorcism.
—Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 5 Dec. 2025
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Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
In the exorcism movies, Crowe plays the guy who fears being possessed.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2025
The exorcism of historical Georgia pain — and recent pain — against its nemesis.
—Seth Emerson, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2025
Her Moody Center show was part emotional tribunal, part teen exorcism.
—Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 5 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for exorcism
Noun
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She was regarded as the female Christ by her followers but accused of witchcraft by outsiders.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
9 Mar. 2026
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Pay multiple people from the crafts site Etsy to perform tarot readings, lift any existing curses and otherwise engage in witchcraft.—
Tyler Estep,
AJC.com,
4 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The sword-and-sorcery title grossed over $68M worldwide, coming to be appreciated as a cult classic, and spawned the sequel Conan the Destroyer (1984).—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
9 Mar. 2026
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The figure of an older woman working alone in a forest hovel inevitably brings some kind of sorcery to mind, but Hjorth’s earlier novels haven’t made too much of the suggestion.—
Elaine Blair,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Feb. 2026
Noun
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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.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Jan. 2026
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Former Disney star Calum Worthy is trying his hand at digital necromancy — and a lot people aren't happy about it.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Nov. 2025
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Soon after, Jean-Baptiste Alliette, known as Etteilla, published the first book on tarot divination and created a deck explicitly designed for fortune-telling.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 Feb. 2026
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For me, the most striking detail is the clear base, inspired by scrying, a form of divination involving crystal balls.—
Adam Hurly,
Robb Report,
20 Feb. 2026
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Doncic showcased his offensive wizardry, joining Kobe Bryant, Elgin Baylor and Jerry West as the only players in Lakers history to record at least 40 points in a season 10 times.—
Broderick Turner,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Mar. 2026
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His wizardry was displayed Sunday in fastidious massaging of volumes, sonorities and interplays, always with an undercurrent of urgency.—
Scott Cantrell,
Dallas Morning News,
3 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Enter kitchen witchery, a practice rooted in modern witchcraft that blends intention, ritual, and everyday cooking.—
Cori Sears,
Better Homes & Gardens,
28 Oct. 2025
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Ravn beautifully brings us inside these circles of care, which to many outsiders might have seemed as strange as witchery.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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But the true magic was in the access.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 Mar. 2026
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The romance tropes are endless, and the magic is too.—
De Elizabeth,
Glamour,
17 Mar. 2026
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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.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
7 Mar. 2026
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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.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Dec. 2025
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