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Attending university has traditionally been a rite of passage that involves moving away from home and transitioning into an independent life.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Jess Douek, a singer who has chronic pain, has won funding to create Bristol's first fully-accessible grassroots music venue so emerging disabled artists aren't "locked out of that rite of passage".

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Inside the Universalist Unitarian Church of Riverside, a line of masked people filed into the red-lighted chapel, one by one, to take part in the rite of confession.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

When I was growing up in Nebraska, detasseling corn was a rite of passage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

The royal procession gave her a chance to honor an ancient rite, which helped her win over the priests and landholders.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby

Who looks at those Saturday losses and performs last rites upon the Bulldogs and Irish?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

In Hindu tradition, when a body cannot be recovered, a symbolic effigy is made from sacred "kusha" grass to represent the dead, allowing relatives to perform last rites.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

It’s not easy to find analogies that can reanimate the importance of burial rites to a modern audience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

After days of searching shelters and mortuaries, relatives of some of the missing lost hope and began conducting last rites.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

Then, to be on the safe side, I wanted somebody I didn't know and wouldn't go on knowing—a kind of impersonal, priestlike official, as in the tales of tribal rites.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath