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In the neighborhoods they grow up in, prison is a rite of passage and being a street gangster is a viable career choice.

For anyone whose political sympathies lie left of center, discovering and reading Chomsky is a rite of passage.

A rite of passage solely reserved for adolescent girls, the painful custom is believed to be as old as the local creation myth.

I had bought the device at Rite-Aid precisely because it resembled a cigarette.

What is beginning to emerge is Brazil at an adolescent stage as part of a national rite of passage.

This important rite was just completed, when a packet was put into Ripperda's hand from Spain.

By submitting to the rite, every one that received circumcision became a debtor to do the whole law.

That the efficiency of this rite as a sign might be most complete, attention to it was enjoined under the greatest penalty.

Had it not been for the Everlasting Covenant, the rite of sacrifice had not been instituted, and a priesthood had not been.

The rite concludes by the recipient spitting on a consecrated host and the whole assembly piercing it in turn with stilettos.