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practice

[prak-tis] / ˈpræk tɪs /


NOUN
business; clientele of business
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“For me, raising a boy differently has less to do with telling him what kind of man he should become and more to do with what we allow him to practice now,” Everett told me.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026

The findings raise the possibility that some puppies received particular attention or were raised under controlled conditions, potentially as part of an organized breeding practice.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

The practice is most common among younger, digital-native audiences, who each year become a larger and larger share of sports fans.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Stroud and wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. walked side-by-side to practice this week, just like they had so many times over the years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

“No. I’ve just been busy with other stuff. I’ll be back at practice soon.”

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

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

He would say, “I have Jewish hands, Jewish bones, Jewish stories, and a Jewish soul. But I’m not officially observant of—the religious practices of the Jewish people. Got it?”

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye

"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

The devices are distributed across the front line and use the classic jamming method practiced for over a century.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 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

The deciding game between the Philadelphia Phillies and Atlanta Braves played silently on the Dodger Stadium scoreboard Thursday as Dodgers players practiced below.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 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

But the 41-year-old acknowledged Thursday she had failed the bar exam, a prerequisite for practicing law in the United States.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Some kids truly have the resources to explore any of their interests, and to continue practicing them.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 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 spent so much time practicing while paper-chaining that he learned my entire bar mitzvah by sheer repetition!

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman


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