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practice

[prak-tis] / ˈpræk tɪs /


NOUN
business; clientele of business
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Although ideology "matters for symbolic encounters," it is "not that relevant" in practice, according to Oliver Stuenkel, an international relations professor at the FGV.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

In practice, this means that defense officials in European partner nations keep calling each other to compare notes on what they had been told by France, senior defense officials say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Nacua was questionable for the game because of a calf injury he suffered during practice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026

It means that, in many households, they have had considerably less practice.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

Did great in practice, Coach P. said I was an animal.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

For Vicinanza, the new findings reinforce the relationship between traditional food practices and modern discoveries about how the body functions.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

Many federal agencies also have civil enforcement powers to address unsafe, unfair, or deceptive business practices.

From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2026

Housing and communities minister Florence Eshalomi said, external the new code "will give drivers a range of rights and protections to make these unfair practices a thing of the past".

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

In 2019, the Federal Trade Commission hit the company, then known as Facebook, with a record $5-billion fine for violating the terms of a 2011 FTC settlement over privacy practices.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Amil only does his best work on the paper after he practices on his bits of flour bags, ends of newspaper, whatever he can find.

From "The Night Diary" by Veera Hiranandani

Mr. Talarico stood on a simple stage with a single microphone and spoke in a practiced casual air, doing his best to seem Obamaesque with a Texas twang.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

A graduate of Widener University Commonwealth Law School, she practiced law at her first husband’s firm and served as general counsel for a parking garage company owned by her second husband.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

"I practiced international transaction law, with all the appropriate credentials," she told Newsweek, without clarifying whether she held a US law license.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

As the longevity physician Hillary Lin described it at a women’s health event, longevity medicine is “good medicine, practiced early.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

Finding we could make raps with our feet—first one foot and then with both—we practiced until we could do this easily when the room was dark.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

Speaking on behalf of the administration isn’t practicing law, so it’s unclear why whiffing the bar is germane, much less a firing offense.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Zacharia, 41, is already under scrutiny over her legal credentials, after giving an inconclusive answer about where she had passed the bar exam, a prerequisite for practicing law in the United States.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Well, that’s why the robots were practicing in my apartment.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

The earliest scientific accounts of elephants practicing "self-medication" date back to the early third century.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

At that point, you may want to spend some time practicing analyzing some simple, familiar pieces.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones


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