tradition

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A year-end rally is something of a tradition–the S&P 500 rises 72% of the time in December, the highest percentage of any month.

From Barron's

The Canadian actor said the comedy would give American audiences a taste of the quintessential British tradition and said it had also showed him what starring in a real-life panto would be like.

From BBC

Their practices challenge modern assumptions about what counts as "development" and remind us that resilience often emerges from diversity: of species, of knowledge, and of cultural traditions.

From Science Daily

In Turkey when the Pope wanted to bring together different Christian traditions to celebrate a time when they had all been united, the Russian Orthodox Church did not send a representative.

From BBC

Flying from Istanbul to Beirut during his first foreign trip since his election in May, the pope continued the tradition of his predecessors by speaking to reporters aboard the papal plane.

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