practice
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“That said, much work still needs to be done to understand how widespread this practice is, and to hold bad actors accountable for laws that may have already been broken.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
In practice, though, the museum friends and the beach friends are forming opposing factions, and the vegetarian friend is hovering between malnourishment and total banishment.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
Accreditation determines whether other states will accept a state’s solvency examinations and, in practice, places intense pressure on legislatures to enact specified model laws.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Two reports on the practice were released on Friday, a year after Denmark apologised for the treatment of Inuit women and girls in its autonomous territory.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
“Just a rumor. And since I haven’t seen you at practice in forever, I thought maybe it was true.”
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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But they said that they could not conclude that genocide had taken place "on the basis of contraceptive practices alone".
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Bennett, a fourth-year pro, took the vast majority of second-team snaps during training camp and preseason practices, and took first-team reps on days Stafford was held out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
The Dutch Stichting Massaschade & Consument consumer group is suing Sony for forcing PlayStation owners to buy from the PlayStation Store, alleging monopolistic practices that drive up the price of digital goods.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
"All healthcare professionals should encourage patients to adopt healthy lifestyle practices and evidence-based therapies, while also helping them reduce their consumption of ultra-processed foods," Hennekens said.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
Concluding that economics, not politics, held the key to black success in America, Moore started a new career as a corporate gadfly, disrupting stockholders' meetings with pointed questions about racial policies and hiring practices.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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And as skilled as she was at this repartee, it never came off overly practiced.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
But they taught my siblings and me not to be ashamed of our roots and to give to those less fortunate, a philosophy that Parton practiced to the end of her 80 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Mr. Rogers, the Republican candidate for Senate, is squaring off against Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, a 41-year-old Rhodes scholar and doctor who never practiced medicine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
He enslaved more than 100 people at Mount Vernon, and historians continue to grapple with the contradiction between the nation’s founding ideals and the human bondage practiced by its first president, among his strong mythology.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Although Bobby never practiced meditation, an essential part of Bhagwan’s belief system, he became deeply interested in the qualities of the ideal—or “realized”—self being described by Bhagwan.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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But beneath all that cuteness, the girls are practicing something more consequential.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
One group has started practicing parkour in a playground.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
A lot of times they were practicing lawyers, but mainly politicians.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
“We’ve been jelling. . We’ve been practicing for a very long time together and the chemistry is there,” Pleasant said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
“I’ve been practicing all week for that contest. You’ll be sorry you didn’t want to share when I win that game system.”
From "Trouble at the Arcade (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #1)" by Franklin W. Dixon
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