practice

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Prize cases long ago filled the U.S. courts, with the Supreme Court ruling in a prize appeal during the Civil War that the practice didn’t require a declared war, only an actual one.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Three people were recently hospitalized after eating poisonous wild mushrooms foraged in California wine country amid an unprecedented outbreak of illness and deaths linked to the practice statewide, health officials in Napa County announced.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

It is standard practice for there to be only two "interested parties" in a disciplinary hearing - the one bringing the charge, in this case the EFL, and the other defending it, Southampton.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

Instead, following Fed practice since the 1990s, Warsh accepts that monetary policy should be made by setting interest rates.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

Then hold practice drills until your people can disappear in that room without a trace in less than a minute.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom