praxis
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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
“From demure Oberlin alumna to socialist organizer, she embodied a praxis of revolutionary change that profoundly inspired W.E.B. Du Bois’s last years.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2022
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
In what was called praxis or practice, the young Goethe was placed in a "circumlocution office" like Weslar.
From Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
Portugal’s education minister has been discussing with universities how to deal with the praxes.
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
“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
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
The selections prepared for the stated praxes of this work, will be found as suitable as any.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown