ceremoniousness

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Noun
  • The James family plans to travel to K’gari in the coming weeks to attend a smoking ceremony as guests of the island’s traditional custodians.
    Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Representatives from more than a dozen countries — not including Canada — appeared at a signing ceremony for the board's charter.
    Joe Walsh, CBS News, 23 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Millions upon millions of people are using generative AI as their ongoing advisor on mental health considerations (note that ChatGPT alone has over 800 million weekly active users, a notable proportion of which dip into mental health aspects, see my analysis at the link here).
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • State Superintendent Lindel Fields, who succeeded Walters, and the board voted unanimously to submit a bundle of new administrative rules, including the proposal to strike the testing requirement, to the Legislature for consideration in its 2026 session.
    Nuria Martinez-Keel, Oklahoma Voice, 23 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Luxury service on a yacht is defined by seamless attentiveness, privacy and hyper-personalized care.
    Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Good care requires a level of presence and attentiveness that just can’t be scaled.
    Jen Zamzow, The Conversation, 17 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • But the book cannot credit Boone with commonplace human thoughtfulness.
    Julius Taranto, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2026
  • This new thoughtfulness is changing how people plan travel.
    Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • If Carolina is thinking about the big picture, giving Coker the extra year, perhaps valued as a first- or second-round tender, is just getting ahead of a formality.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Of course, Jones, who has only played 16 games in a season once in his first seven years, still has to re-sign with the Colts, though that seems like a formality at this point.
    James Boyd, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Loyal to the Emperor, scornful of the aristocracy, and sympathetic to the peasants’ desire for liberation, if not their bloodlust, he is torn between medieval chivalry and modern self-preservation.
    Merve Emre, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • The Order of the Garter is Britain's oldest and most senior order of chivalry, while the Royal Victorian Order is awarded in recognition of exceptional service to the sovereign and the royal family, in the U.K. and across the Commonwealth.
    Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 1 Dec. 2025
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“Ceremoniousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ceremoniousness. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.

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