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Recent Examples of exorcism
The film’s second half goes in for horror-movie shock effects when the ghost of a white nemesis haunts the Charles family — bringing back the terrors of slavery — and the talisman piano becomes an instrument of exorcism.
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Armond White, National Review, 27 Dec. 2024
Grob is a lifelong Badgers fan, learned priest and exorcism expert
The Milwaukee archdiocese covers Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozaukee, Washington, Sheboygan, Fond du Lac, Dodge, Walworth, Racine and Kenosha.
—Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 4 Nov. 2024
Prologue is also backing The Root of All Evil, set up at Atomic Monster and Blumhouse, which is described as a psychological thriller based on former New York Times correspondent Ravi Somaiya’s work reporting on an exorcism in Mexico City.
—Erik Hayden, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Dec. 2024
Eventually, the girl’s desperate parents had no choice but to seek an exorcism.
—Matthew Gabriele, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2024
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Armond White, National Review, 27 Dec. 2024
Grob is a lifelong Badgers fan, learned priest and exorcism expert
The Milwaukee archdiocese covers Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozaukee, Washington, Sheboygan, Fond du Lac, Dodge, Walworth, Racine and Kenosha.
—Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 4 Nov. 2024
Prologue is also backing The Root of All Evil, set up at Atomic Monster and Blumhouse, which is described as a psychological thriller based on former New York Times correspondent Ravi Somaiya’s work reporting on an exorcism in Mexico City.
—Erik Hayden, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Dec. 2024
Eventually, the girl’s desperate parents had no choice but to seek an exorcism.
—Matthew Gabriele, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for exorcism
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In the late 1600s, Tituba, an enslaved Indigenous woman of probable Central American background purchased by Puritan minister Samuel Parris in Barbados, became the first woman accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA TODAY,
6 Feb. 2025
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Bram Stoker’s original 1897 novel begins around Walpurgisnacht, a European springtime festival often associated with spirits and witchcraft.—
Mike Calia,
NBC News,
24 Dec. 2024
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Additionally, the Massachusetts legislature has made efforts over the past four years to clear the names of those accused of demonic sorcery during the Salem Witch Trials, which filled the colony’s courts throughout much of the 1600s.—
Gary Collins,
Baltimore Sun,
12 Jan. 2025
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Unknown Armies This idiosyncratic modern magic game from Atlas Games plays like a gritty reboot of other games about sorcery.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes,
9 Jan. 2025
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After her death, Morgan even resorted to necromancy, reviving the People’s Princess (now embodied by Elizabeth Debicki) as an apparition who soothes a disconsolate Charles (Dominic West) and makes peace with a grieving but resentful Elizabeth (Imelda Staunton).—
Inkoo Kang,
The New Yorker,
14 Dec. 2023
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Part of my aversion arises from my own hidebound premodern Calvinist outlook, in which death is no laughing matter and necromancy is forbidden by God (see Deuteronomy 18:9-13).—
Barton Swaim,
WSJ,
26 Oct. 2023
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Following her magnificent turn as a Sicilian divination witch in Agatha All Along, Patti LuPone is returning to the small screen for another flashy role.—
Nick Romano,
EW.com,
3 Jan. 2025
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Here are five examples of divination techniques that different cultures have developed to cope with life’s uncertainties.—
Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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For starters, there’s nothing apart from a curly cable winding up to the rear of the seat to indicate any kind of electric wizardry.—
Trinity Francis,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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Inside the Premium Machine Michael Saylor's financial wizardry has transformed MicroStrategy into a Bitcoin acquisition juggernaut, fueled by two high-stakes maneuvers: At-The-Market (ATM) stock sales and convertible notes.—
Roomy Khan,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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All three are presented in the episode-two challenge, where they are suspended in cages above the ground out in the woods, like they’ve been accused of witchery or something.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
9 Jan. 2025
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There’s also a glimpse of Billy, Lilia and Jen channeling iconic Disney heroes and villains, plus requisite flashbacks to Agatha and Rio’s days of Salem witchery.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
14 Oct. 2024
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But such is the magic of Friedrich’s paintings, whose surfaces always contain more than is initially apparent.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
5 Feb. 2025
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Much of Mexico's magic comes from the ability to slow down and tap into its simplest pleasures.—
Travel + Leisure Staff,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Feb. 2025
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“Exorcism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exorcism. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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