as in ritual
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With Lottie as their shaman, the girls and Travis (Kevin Alves) practiced tuning into their surroundings, engaging in casual sacrifices (a few drops of blood or dead birds here and there), and ultimately creating a ritual way to hunt, kill, and eat one of their own while food ran scarce.—
Proma Khosla,
IndieWire,
12 Feb. 2025 -
Those who buried her covered her body in ochre obtained from a location outside of the cave as a kind of ritual offering.—
Jack Knudson,
Discover Magazine,
10 Feb. 2025
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Like mine, Morgan’s earliest fragrance memory also includes watching her family matriarch — her grandmother — dabbing perfume with almost ritualistic precision, which has continued to inspire her work.—
Kimberly Wilson,
Essence,
10 Feb. 2025
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Alternatively, the site might have had ceremonial or ritualistic significance.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The authors conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of 11 studies on cold-water immersion.—
Maggie O'Neill,
Health,
8 Feb. 2025
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The systematic dismantling of the 63-year-old agency is a stark contrast to its history of bipartisan support for funding programs like PEPFAR, created by President George W. Bush and credited with saving some 25 million lives.—
Fatma Tanis,
NPR,
7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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What’s the holdup: The Hall seems to have a methodical approach to hip-hop, which typically results in one act from the genre getting in each year.—
Joe Kwaczala,
Vulture,
12 Feb. 2025
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His house is neat, his habits are orderly, and, with his careful concentration on practical details and his loving attention to Sandy, his methodical life appears full and busy.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Formalistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/formalistic. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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