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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of ritualize.

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Examples

  • That sort of logic falls under the rubric ‘lies told to children’, something which applies only under certain ritualized games (i.e., formal debate).

    Climate Change and Argumentative Fallacies 2009

  • Called "ritualized signals of displays," we seem to be aping our ape kin to manipulate others.

    Kenny Ausubel: The Sting: Social Biomimicry and The Role of Fraud in Nature Kenny Ausubel 2011

  • Called "ritualized signals of displays," we seem to be aping our ape kin to manipulate others.

    Kenny Ausubel: The Sting: Social Biomimicry and The Role of Fraud in Nature Kenny Ausubel 2011

  • That's the kind of ritualized confession of love that gave a picture like To Have and Have Not its place in moviegoers 'affections.

    Finding It at the Movies Menand, Louis 1995

  • For just as, in 1942, the biologists confirmed Hitler in his belief that the Final Solution to the Jewish Problem concurred with his Duty to the Creator, so in the 1960s the notion of "ritualized," limited combats seems to have lulled certain strategists (and apologists) of the Vietnam war into a belief that they were answering the Call of Nature.

    The Call of Nature Zimmer, Dieter E. 1980

  • Thus behavior which signifies aggressive hostility towards enemies comes to be modified into a 'ritualized' form which signals love and amity between friends.

    Don't Say "Boo" to a Goose Leach, Edmund R. 1966

  • Since then, with the exception of a few instances of magic, watching the national side has been a kind of ritualized despair.

    The New Republic - All Feed Daniel Alarcón 2010

  • Slide 10: HOWEVER, "NOT ALL EXPERIENCES ARE CREATED EQUAL" within that complexity, readers are likely to be singularly focused on their magazines consumers say they are alone when 3 in 4 reading their magazines of consumers read their magazines in bed, 2 / 3 in their favorite chair or in their den … a "ritualized" setting almost of consumers do nothing else while reading 1 / 2 their magazines, versus 1 / 3 for TV and the internet slide 10 source: otx quantitative survey

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2008

  • Here, the spiritual tracks, called “the ropes to God,” are valued over libraries, schools, and ritualized teaching.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • I think lots of men have felt that dichotomy when we've successfully enacted certain ritualized masculine performances -- especially when violence is involved.

    Jackson Katz: Fathers, Sons and Guns: An Interview With USC Sociologist and Author Michael Messner Jackson Katz 2011

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