in practice

phrase

—used to say what is actually done or what the actual effect or result of something is

The software is designed to block pornographic websites, but in practice, it blocks many other sites as well.

In actual practice, people sometimes forget to take their medication.

Examples of in practice in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Housing officials are tempering expectations about what that date means in practice. — Elaine Rojas-Castillo, CBS News, 1 July 2026

What the purity milestones mean in practice Rare earth element purity is not an abstract metric. — Aditya Jadhav, Interesting Engineering, 30 June 2026

Liability protection depends on how the business is operated in practice. — Blake Harris, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026

Despite mathematical models to the contrary, in practice, no controller is less incentivized for success merely because their economic ownership fell from 51% to 45%. — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 6 July 2026

Rhymes for in practice

• malpractice
• actus
• cactus
• practise
• tractus