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tradition

A2Academic AWL-2Frequent NGSL-2
UK /trəˈdɪʃn/US /trəˈdɪʃn/
noun

a belief, custom or way of doing something that has existed for a long time among a particular group of people; a set of these beliefs or customs

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The Danger of a Single Story | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | TED
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But what is important about his writing is that it represents the beginning of a tradition of telling African stories in the West: A tradition of Sub-Saharan Africa as a place of

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