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Like all tasting menus, the Journey has its ritual flourishes, some of them twee (such as the servers presenting a basket of farm eggs and an arrangement of grains just before the courses featuring those ingredients) and others quite charming.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
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Here, up to 20 courses are prepared with ritual precision, from seafood treated with the ikejime (humane fish-slaughtering) method, to rice and wasabi sourced from long-standing Japanese suppliers.—
Rachel Ingram,
Robb Report,
10 May 2026
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The existence of audience active search and ritualistic forms of consumption is also determined by contextual factors that include social stability, structural dependencies between media and other social systems, and interpersonal discourse networks.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
8 May 2026
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At trial, prosecutors argued the killing was tied to a ritualistic motive, pointing to witness testimony and forensic evidence that Clark later challenged as false or misleading in court filings.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
7 May 2026
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The new report goes further, calling the violence systematic and calculated.—
Ivana Kottasová,
CNN Money,
12 May 2026
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But there is also a systematic way to determine whether the risk is worth it.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
12 May 2026
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Fans were booing and barking as Breakker slowed the pace down with methodical suplexes.—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2026
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Survival beyond Earth won't hinge on heroics as much as planning, engineering and being as methodical as the threats deep space presents.—
Alan Bradley,
Space.com,
8 May 2026
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“Formalistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/formalistic. Accessed 14 May. 2026.
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