genuflection
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He saw the tribal genuflection as “an empty, performative act” that implied “UW’s presence is somehow illegitimate, shameful, morally wrong.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025
At earlier hearings, university presidents opted for strategies of conciliatory genuflection or drab, lawyerly answers.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2024
“It’s only a movie, and … a much less impressive one than all the accompanying genuflection would have you believe.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2024
But Adam didn’t do rhyme and meter, for one thing — too much like mandatory genuflection in church, he once remarked.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2023
Again the ten boys repeated their song and dance and their castanets, and with a rapid genuflection disappeared.
From The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
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