sacrificial
adjective
sac·ri·fi·cial
ˌsa-krə-ˈfi-shəl 
1
: of, relating to, of the nature of, or involving sacrifice
2
: of or relating to a metal that serves as an anode which is electrolytically consumed instead of another metal that is present
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their sacrificial acts of self-denial
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The case is one of the state's most high-profile and controversial murders, with Allen claiming the real killers were members of an Odinist group who murdered the girls during a sacrificial ritual in the woods.
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Kristine Phillips, IndyStar, 1 Aug. 2025
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Set almost entirely within a beauty parlor, the story complicates when Victoria must care for a neighbor’s sacrificial rooster intended for a church offering.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 June 2025
His decorations included reminders of past Sámi sacrificial traditions that took place both outdoors and around hearth fires.
—Thomas A. Dubois, The Conversation, 27 June 2025
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Kristine Phillips, IndyStar, 1 Aug. 2025
One More World is a sustained experiment in constructing a coherent personal register from grand forms – technical, sacrificial, mythological, memorial – and its accomplishment involves the translation of High Modernism into a lyric mode.
—Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes.com, 17 July 2025
Set almost entirely within a beauty parlor, the story complicates when Victoria must care for a neighbor’s sacrificial rooster intended for a church offering.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 June 2025
His decorations included reminders of past Sámi sacrificial traditions that took place both outdoors and around hearth fires.
—Thomas A. Dubois, The Conversation, 27 June 2025
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“Sacrificial.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sacrificial. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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