noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an initiation ceremony (= in which someone officially becomes an adult, a member of a group etc )
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tribal initiation ceremonies
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ceremony
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They had doused a colleague's trousers with paint thinners, a regular initiation ceremony in their Skelmersdale factory.
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At boys' initiation ceremonies , a Mukula log is put near the place where they are circumcised.
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Some initiation ceremony perhaps or unspoken betrothal?
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It was a way of imposing some sort of initiation ceremony on himself.
rite
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This will be a new experience for Mr Major, the last and hardest of his political initiation rites .
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Spirit baptism was not just an initiation rite , it was a mystical encounter.
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His appearance is essential to the tribes' fertility, and he is petitioned in initiation rites for young boys at puberty.
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Hence, the recourse to alcohol or other drugs, which is commonly featured in initiation rites around the world.
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Your initiation rites do not conceal your destitution.
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Lois was tempted to ask the young man if he thought she had undergone an initiation rite .
ritual
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What of our own, where initiation ritual does not exist?
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Yet as serious as this initiation ritual is, it is also fun.
translation
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We hypothesized therefore that the N-Oct 5 complex is generated by alternative translation initiation .
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We consider it most likely, that alternative translation initiation is the mechanism for generation of the N-Oct 5 proteins.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the group's secret initiation rite