vision quest

noun

: a solitary vigil by an adolescent American Indian boy to seek spiritual power and learn through a vision the identity of his usually animal or bird guardian spirit

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For leaders who are crashing into their annual planning cycles now, this isn’t a call to tear everything up and begin a strategy and vision quest. —

Dev Patnaik, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024 Johnny Depp plays a man sent to a town called Machine for a job as an accountant, but gets waylaid in a gunfight and ends up on a vision quest with the help of a Native American calling himself Nobody. —

and Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 21 June 2024 These aren’t ‘tepee rings,’ these are vision quest circles. —

Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2024 This time, for reasons that will remain a mystery, Moses set off on a journey through the wooded unknown of his very own transformational vision quest. —

Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 10 May 2023 See all Example Sentences for vision quest