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
Preparing and drinking coffee is an important daily ritual in Ethiopia with members of the community, mainly women, coming together to take part in a traditional ceremony.
From BBC • May 31, 2026
Now they had to engage in the morbid ritual of waiting for that dream to die.
From Salon • May 27, 2026
On a brisk spring evening not long ago, two dozen men and women gathered in the back room of a Manhattan bar to engage in a peculiar ritual known as speed-dating.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
Vocabulary lists containing ritual
A Long Walk to Water
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