ritualize

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Leeah Joo’s luxuriantly painted Western-style oils depict bundles wrapped in traditional Korean fabrics, and Kyoung eun Kang’s performance videos ritualize being a transplant to New York City.

From Washington Post • Jun. 30, 2021

Professor, activist and author Maulana Karenga would ritualize and sacralize the cultural and moral underpinnings of these practices in the seven principles of Kwanzaa.

From Salon • Nov. 20, 2019

Both works ritualize "Macbeth" into a stylized allegory without sacrificing any of the visceral horror.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 28, 2015

Keepsake passwords, he suggested, ritualize a daily encounter with personal memories that often have no place else to be recalled.

From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2014

We ritualize it—we bow, we take off our hats, we shake hands, we rise when a lady enters.

From Christianity and Progress by Fosdick, Harry Emerson