rite

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The "ice facial" has become a social media rite of passage and is half beauty hack, half endurance challenge.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026

It is almost a rite of passage for a successful England team to first suffer a chastening Calcutta Cup loss at Murrayfield.

From Barron's • Feb. 15, 2026

Waldfogel’s insight reframes Christmas in terms economists immediately recognize: not as a festival of generosity, but as a massive annual rite of mistargeted consumption.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

Year-end tax planning is an annual rite at accounting and advisory firms like CBIZ, said Mark Baran, a managing director in the firm’s national tax office.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 19, 2025

Thus did she lie, without speaking of this rite to me, even some four thousand miles from her home.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson