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adjective

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Recent Examples of ritual
Noun
That vision comes from its founder, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, who understands how legacy, ritual, and performance resonate far beyond the stage. Hali Bey Ramdene, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 Oct. 2025 The discovery came a year after a similar excavation at the site yielded foundation deposits and a variety of artifacts, including funerary and ritual objects. Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
In hospitality, every operational detail from the check-in flow to service rituals and even cutlery alignment becomes the difference between loyalty and churn. Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2025 There are plenty of brands to choose from, ones that celebrate their heritage, their rituals, and, of course, their communities. Sofía Viera, Allure, 10 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ritual
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ritual
Noun
  • Take this quick quiz to see where your digital habits stand.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2025
  • The Phillies also exploited a habit that emerged with Ohtani’s return to the mound as a two-way player.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Although Milan will surely take the lion’s share of attention with the global streaming of the event from the San Siro Stadium, the 75,000-audience venue in the city, all other locations will be featured in the opening ceremony.
    Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Ever since Taylor Swift announced her engagement, there has been a frenzy of questions and speculations about what the ceremony and subsequent party will look like.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Accompanied by a nonchalant guitar performance, dancer and choreographer Dong Jilan, donning a brown velvet dress and having the same long, wavy hair as Sanmao, woke up from a miniature dune and roamed around the set in a highly spiritual and ceremonial fashion.
    Denni Hu, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Randy Johnson tossed the ceremonial first pitch on Wednesday.
    Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Discussions have been held about dividing Madrid’s football operations from their business operations and letting speculators invest in the latter — although how (or if) that would work in practice is a moot point.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • In recent years, safety concerns have been raised at the plant, which faced federal fines several years ago related to workplace safety practices, according to federal records.
    Isabel Rosales, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Bigelow has often been accused of being apolitical—or, because of her fascination with the codes, rites, and aesthetics of men at war, of advancing a gung-ho fetishization of American militarism.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2025
  • According to the Ceremonial of Bishops, such rites – often a Mass or a Liturgy of the Word – should take place as soon as possible following a desecration.
    Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • During his tenure, Nelson introduced a series of organizational and liturgical changes intended to emphasize the centrality of Jesus Christ in church practice and to streamline local worship.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The work, which King has described as a meditation on love, resilience and inner-strength, is set to Black spirituals and Jewish liturgical music, features vocals by the great singer Lisa Fischer and a score by piano great Jason Moran, artists with whom the collab-happy King has worked before.
    Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The buckets are used as a replacement for the standard cardboard Happy Meal box and can double as a candy pail to use for trick-or-treating on Halloween.
    Endia Fontanez, AZCentral.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Add them to movie-night snacks, candy bowls, or trick-or-treat bags for a fun, not-too-frightening addition to your Halloween spread.
    Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But starting in 1970, Time and Date AS has tracked observance of daylight saving time in Kentucky every year.
    Chris Sims, Louisville Courier Journal, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Similar jijingu have been found across the Baekje kingdom’s capital, and offer a window into religious observances at the time—a mix of indigenous Korean animism combined with outside Buddhist and Chinese influences.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2025

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“Ritual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ritual. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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