ritualize
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Professor, activist and author Maulana Karenga would ritualize and sacralize the cultural and moral underpinnings of these practices in the seven principles of Kwanzaa.
From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2019
In your case, it might mean learning to ritualize walking outdoors, reading poetry or listening to a favorite piece of music.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 10, 2018
Both works ritualize "Macbeth" into a stylized allegory without sacrificing any of the visceral horror.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 2015
Keepsake passwords, he suggested, ritualize a daily encounter with personal memories that often have no place else to be recalled.
From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2014
We can ritualize our sorrows, but not turn them into tragedies.
From Ancient Art and Ritual by Jane Ellen Harrison
But another interpretation cannot be ruled out: that of an internal, perhaps ritualized, treatment of women who came from elsewhere but by then had been fully integrated into the group.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
The language is reflexive, ritualized, and remarkably effective.
From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2026
We tolerate misallocation because we are purchasing something other than objects: reassurance, attention, belonging—a ritualized way of saying you matter to me and I am willing to incur a cost to prove it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
"These ritualized let’s go rumbles made by the most socially integrated males really make my heart sing."
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2024
An ultimatum accepted and ritualized, an allegiance recited for the peace it imparted, and for that perhaps loved.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
“The Book of Birds” is, like poetry, a form of memory, recovery and ritualizing delight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Religion is the most obvious construction for ritualizing meaning.
From Washington Post ● May 15, 2020
This Brooklyn-based choreographer, originally from Uruguay, presents the premiere of “Brujx,” in which she continues her investigation of dance as a healing art by ritualizing the labor of her dancers.
From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2018
The two groups then played a trust game, and Inzlicht found that the ritualizing “reds” distrusted the nonritualizing outgroup much more than they had before.
From Time ● Jan. 13, 2015
