as in sacrifices
something offered to a god
the blood-drenched immolations that the ancient Aztecs annually offered by the thousands
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sacrifices
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Then, overnight, there were no more sacrifices, and the priest class had nothing to do.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026 -
The wars stop making sense, and thus the human and financial sacrifices come to seem pointless.—
Fintan O’Toole,
The New York Review of Books,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Immolations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immolations. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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