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Paper opening: ‘Recurrence of habitual responses about universal religious symbol (7,3)

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I believe the answer is:

scissor cut

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''recurrence of habitual responses about universal religious symbol' is the definition.
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'paper opening' is the wordplay.
'paper' becomes 'scissor' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'opening' becomes 'cut' (cut is a kind of opening).
'scissor'+'cut'='SCISSOR CUT'

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