It allowed them to exorcize the demons of the country's past racism.
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Only Friedkin, now 77, knows whether reliving the past can help exorcize any lingering demons.
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Their trial may well mark the final effort to exorcize the specter of Jackson from the Marin courthouse.
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Michael's job is to exorcize the exorcist.
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Whitfield, a veteran Sacramento attorney, quit years of therapy that he once thought would exorcize his homosexuality.
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The work is to exorcize the monster if there is one.
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Several of his Army mates were already in Iraq and, says his brother Marc, Ahmelman had a few demons he needed to exorcize.
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As the violence worsened, some argued that the only way to exorcize those demons would be to ditch the democratic process and hand the country back to a Saddam-style strongman.
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Exorcise: expel through adjuration or prayers; "exorcise evil spirits"
To drive out a supposed evil spirits from a person, place or thing, especially by an incantation or prayer; To rid a person, place or thing of an evil spirit