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practice

[prak-tis] / ˈpræk tɪs /


NOUN
business; clientele of business
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But even if we ignore the self-interest of critics and assume that forward guidance was created with good intentions, it simply doesn’t work in practice.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

Whether this legal challenge will succeed depends in part on whether judges will continue to defer to the president on these particular levies, no matter how much they deviate from previous practice.

From Salon Aug. 16, 2026

The Rams will hold a joint practice this week against the New Orleans Saints, and then play the Saints on Saturday at SoFi Stadium.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

That has meant getting practice in at climbing centres and using poles at a dance and burlesque studio in Kilmarnock.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

“The Muslims don’t mind that we practice our faith,” Grandfather adds.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

Trump is especially interested in Section 301, which is meant to remedy foreign trade practices that are discriminatory, unfair or unreasonable, and that burden U.S. commerce.

From Salon Aug. 16, 2026

"Where I went was unfamiliar to me, it was like nowhere I'd ever been before, and there were practices and behaviours that were completely alien to me," he added.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

However, the researchers caution that this geographic pattern could reflect differences in coroner awareness and testing practices rather than the actual distribution of cases.

From Science Daily Aug. 15, 2026

Medical practices collect their payments in full only when their patients’ blood pressure or blood sugar actually improves.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

“We are not discussing best practices for vampiric consumption!”

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

He enslaved more than 100 people at Mount Vernon, and historians continue to grapple with the contradiction between the nation’s founding ideals and the human bondage practiced by its first president, among his strong mythology.

From Salon Aug. 16, 2026

Anthropic’s Mythos practiced deception, while OpenAI models swapped tips on a secret message board.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

I read a study years ago that fundamentally changed the way I thought about estate planning and how I practiced it as an attorney and, later, a wealth adviser.

From MarketWatch Jul. 29, 2026

Wellness as practiced and performed by Kennedy is certainly curated to project manliness.

From Slate Jul. 29, 2026

The medium reported learning these tricks from “the women who practiced the same deception in Rochester.”

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

One group has started practicing parkour in a playground.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

A lot of times they were practicing lawyers, but mainly politicians.

From Slate Aug. 10, 2026

Associates can now have a live voice conversation with an AI-generated persona of a shopper, practicing how and what to say to close the deal.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

And part of the fun is meeting locals with similar interests and practicing speaking another language, whether that means going on dates or just making new friends.

From MarketWatch Aug. 6, 2026

The boys had spent every spare moment practicing with the cardboard tubes that their aunt Gertrude had given them.

From "Hopping Mad (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #4)" by Franklin W. Dixon




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