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Adjective
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However, there are no signs of markets, ritual infrastructure, or wealth disparities.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
30 May 2026 -
Shange’s rainbow assemblage manages to be confrontational and conciliatory through a confessional accumulation that collapses poetry, movement, and ritual into a single and ever-changing event.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 May 2026
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The Marby grave brings together cremation, a stone monument, and this ritualistic deposit of bronze objects, which is synonymous with the end of this era when the treatment and use of bronze objects changed—often left in hoards on land or in water, sometimes as offerings to gods or divinities.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
31 May 2026
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And there’s so many beautiful references across the world in terms of how different ritualistic spaces inhabit that kind of thing.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
26 May 2026
Adjective
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Triage — the systematic process of prioritizing patients by the severity of their condition — determines the length of the delay.—
Iyesatta Massaquoi Emeli,
STAT,
2 June 2026
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According to Coyle, there is also still little systematic evidence that AI is increasing productivity at the firm level, and even where individual workers are going faster, that doesn’t always feed through to the organization as a whole.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
2 June 2026
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Deputies arrived and conducted a methodical search of the building, looking into every room on the three floors of the building, according to radio dispatch recordings reviewed by The Sacramento Bee.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
29 May 2026
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His current recovery from a torn right ACL suffered in September has been more methodical.—
Matt Barrows,
New York Times,
29 May 2026
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“Formalistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/formalistic. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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