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practice

[prak-tis] / ˈpræk tɪs /


NOUN
business; clientele of business
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Meaghan VerGow, co-chair of the securities litigation and financial services practice at O’Melveny & Myers, said that while allegations of mis-valuation and excessive fees are hard to prove, the results of these cases are unpredictable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Second-year forward Adou Thiero and rookie guard Cameron Carr both missed practice Monday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

A crash in Long Beach practice damaged his car but he was able to claim the final point for sixth place in the race.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Not only does the practice create a paper trail, it carries steep penalties.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

To qualify for the racing team in junior high she would have to practice every day.

From "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" by Eleanor Coerr

Nevertheless, the differences in burial practices, physical characteristics, and dietary patterns suggest that the hairless dogs held a distinctive place within the community.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

A spokesperson for ETS defended the organization’s practices.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

For Netflix, that means looking outside of its once-unimpeachable red walls and embracing more reluctant partnerships with rivals, while cutting costs and overhauling old practices wherever possible.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

Perhaps one of the most crucial practices they adopted, was what they call “the rumble,” which helped change the workplace culture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Politicians and law enforcement officials today rarely endorse racially biased practices, and most of them fiercely condemn racial discrimination of any kind.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

I’ve practiced my profession exactly seven times longer than Caroline.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

Williams practiced fully Thursday after missing the last three games.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

"I practiced international transaction law, with all the appropriate credentials," she told Newsweek, without clarifying whether she held a US law license.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

As the longevity physician Hillary Lin described it at a women’s health event, longevity medicine is “good medicine, practiced early.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

They practiced sliding into the bases, pitching, catching, running, and swinging.

From "The Missing Mitt (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #2)" by Franklin W. Dixon

Zacharia, 41, is already under scrutiny over her legal credentials, after giving an inconclusive answer about where she had passed the bar exam, a prerequisite for practicing law in the United States.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Well, that’s why the robots were practicing in my apartment.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

“Anytime I’m resting in rehearsals, he’s practicing… What you see on Tuesdays, that is his best…”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

Like a tennis player practicing serves, it’s by writing lines of code over and over that young engineers discover how to spot bugs—and learn from their mistakes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

I was an almost in second grade after I spent a whole weekend practicing my sounding-out words so I could move up to the red reading group.

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff


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