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rite

noun as in ceremony, tradition

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Leaving home to go to university was once considered a rite of passage.

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His annual directors’ brunch became a rite of passage for young filmmakers and a prime networking opportunity for new directors.

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It’s intended to be a rite of passage itself.

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The separation of a president and the vice president looking to follow him into the Oval Office is a political rite of passage, though always a fraught and delicate one.

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But that tweenage rite of passage looks uncertain as the future of the chain hangs in the balance.

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