practiced

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Lindsey became a lawyer in 1997 and practiced family law from 2000 to 2013.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

The two know each other from grade school years earlier but hadn’t been friends, and now they’re gawky teenagers practiced in the supreme virtue of adolescence, which is to be cool.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Mr. Currey asks an important question about Genet, but assays no answer: “Was it prison that enabled his writing, or was it the act of theft that he practiced so assiduously during all those years?”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

Macro trading, the strategy practiced by Scott Bessent before he became Treasury Secretary, is one of the few hedge-fund-like categories to do well since the war began.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

He said the practiced words as though he were addressing millions instead of an audience of two.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray