ceremonially
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The irony of it happening more than 1,500 miles away from Burning Man, where installations are ceremonially reduced to ash, is not lost.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2025
The King, in a light summer suit, spoke a few quiet words of welcome, wearing a circlet of feathers and a scarf that had been draped ceremonially around his shoulders.
From BBC • Jul. 11, 2025
Her witty, vivacious daughter now rose at 4 in the morning to chant, and spent all her time cooking, ceremonially offering each meal to the deity Krishna before allowing her family to eat.
From New York Times • May 22, 2024
At the Iowa State Fair, pork chops have been ceremonially flipped.
From Slate • Sep. 25, 2023
Once a year everything touched by the Inka—clothing, garbage, bedding, saliva—was ceremonially burned.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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