ceremonial
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It stores and distributes eagle remains, parts and feathers to federally recognized tribes for religious, cultural and ceremonial purposes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Another band carries the flower procession, ceremonial now but no less insistent.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
The material was used to make ceremonial blankets, giving these dogs a role centered on textile production rather than hunting or transportation.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
The puzzle only deepened with the discovery in recent years of six more ceremonial pits full of shattered artifacts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
They talked about the Elf King and his ceremonial umbrella, and Ghohg’s spiky emissary.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
In 1927, the year architect Lloyd Wright designed a pyramidal modern shell for the Bowl, Native Americans held intertribal ceremonials in the venue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2022
The ceremonials were the same, and we filed into the Council Chamber a little before four in the afternoon.
From Nature ● Dec. 18, 2018
We climbed and explored Acoma and Bandelier, Mesa Verde, went to Indian dances and ceremonials and powwows.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 28, 2016
The pattern of storms and ceremonials, of private emotion and public ritual, was established at the outset.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 23, 2010
She glows in her ceremonials, looking more like an empress than a Blood Shrike.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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