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ritual

[rich-oo-uhl] / ˈrɪtʃ u əl /


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I recently stopped drinking caffeine, but I couldn’t kick the ritual, so I have a decaf latte every single morning I make at home with my little Nespresso pods.

From The Wall Street Journal

"In Corsica the clans are not linked by family ties or rituals of lifelong loyalty, but by simple opportunism," Dominici says.

From BBC

So what if another ritual—another rite of passage, another shared experience—is lost?

From The Wall Street Journal

Respite and relief came from prayer, ritual and the traditional Sabbath meals and menus that Ms. Ziegelman conjures with care.

From The Wall Street Journal

Between the 1930s and the 1970s, German ethnologist Hans Himmelheber journeyed across Ivory Coast amassing a collection of ritual objects.

From Barron's