ritual
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It’s turned into an all too familiar ritual: college sports dancing around an eventuality, instead of proactively tackling the hardest parts head-on.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
The now-nightly ritual died down an inning after it started.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
Now they had to engage in the morbid ritual of waiting for that dream to die.
From Salon • May 27, 2026
In 2025, Singh faced backlash after mimicking a ritual sequence from the hit Kannada film Kantara during a film festival event.
From BBC • May 27, 2026
Hence a “dead” image lost its potency after the killing ritual had been performed and could be disregarded when the spell had to be renewed.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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