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praxis

[prak-sis] / ˈpræk sɪs /
NOUN
habit
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Their qualitative work on the severed mother-daughter dyad has yielded wholly nuanced theories and praxis rooted in the unique “self-in-relation” analysis model.

From Salon ● May 11, 2024

She said that Jacob’s non-oral autism arises from “trouble with praxis, which means motor planning — how to get the body and the mouth to do what I want when I want.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2023

Musically, Moriondo has absorbed several waves of punk praxis.

From New York Times ● May 6, 2021

The praxis has always been and is still being developed by the marginalized and has of necessity to be nimbler than the scholarship, which all too often serves the powerful.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 3, 2021

They were vigorous and fresh; their intellect was not obstructed by any political routine, or by tricky political praxis.

From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by Adam G. de Gurowski, Count

“We want to find out the truth, but not eliminate the praxes, because they’ve also made many students happy, including our son Pedro,” his mother, Maria Fátima Negrão, said.

From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2014

But since the deaths, Mr. Campos said, he has been the target of insults and even objects thrown at him while walking around Lisbon wearing his traditional black praxes outfit.

From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2014

Portugal’s education minister has been discussing with universities how to deal with the praxes.

From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2014

Frederico Campos, the leader of the law faculty’s praxes, said that “none of our games are really risky or could lead to something like what happened on that beach.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2014

This difficulty being surmounted, let him follow the forms prescribed for the several praxes of this work, and he shall not err.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown


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