Thesaurus results for CUSTOM(S)

customs

noun

plural of custom

as in rituals

a usual manner of behaving or doing it is my custom to have half a bagel and coffee for breakfast

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as in traditions

an inherited or established way of thinking, feeling, or doing the custom around here is that the bride's family pays for the wedding

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Recent Examples of customs In their nine years together, Leigh had often thought of Beck as a kind of charming insectoid alien in a human suit learning Earth customs. — Josephine Reisman, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026 After going through customs, the team will settle at its hotel before heading to the practice facility of the Flamengo soccer club. — Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Sep. 2026 Indeed, Chinese customs data shows a sharp rise in imports of unprocessed platinum and palladium over the past five years, an approach in keeping with a playbook that involves importing raw materials for local processing. — Alexis Akwagyiram, semafor.com, 21 Sep. 2026 Every city, every landscape, and every community preserves its own traditions, customs, culinary heritage, and unique interpretation of beauty. — Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 21 Sep. 2026 July crude import figures for key Asian markets Official July import figures come from Korea's Petronet, Japan's METI, and Chinese customs. — Matthew Tan, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2026 Those ideas can’t be legislated into existence, yet institutions, social movements, customs, and habits can shape them over time. — Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026 But bureaucratic hurdles, such as long customs checks, and infrastructure that wasn’t designed to handle so much volume have produced massive traffic jams. — Jason Ma, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2026 This was the time when India imposed steep customs duties and limits on consumer-goods imports. — Kamala Thiagarajan, NPR, 20 Sep. 2026

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Noun

The intimate spa offers a number of different treatments and beauty rituals, but the standout one is Oro di Amalfi, an exclusive massage with natural lemon oils that relaxes and stimulates the chakras.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Sep. 2026
Your well-being is a reflection of your day-to-day rituals, Scorpio.

— Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of rituals

Noun

Anyone frustrated by their own scrolling habits should try one small friction tweak first, like grayscale, a notification purge or a home-screen edit, before spending on hardware.

— Ashley Lynch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Sep. 2026
The store that matches its habits to its real customers beats the one copying whatever the chains are doing this quarter.

— Elie Y. Katz, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of habits

Noun

The push is the strongest effort yet to establish federal rules for college athletics and regulate athlete compensation after years of negotiations and tumult.

— Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 29 Sep. 2026
Environmental groups estimate now, without stricter standards, cars could produce 22,111 more tons of carbon dioxide per year than under the Biden-era rules in 2035.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of rules

Noun

The attorney general’s office will review the records to determine whether the group violated Missouri’s merchandising practices act, according to a news release.

— Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 24 Sep. 2026
However, those conventions become much more meaningful when students understand the intellectual practices underneath them.

— Saurabh Anand, JSTOR Daily, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of practices

Noun

To me, the GV70 is one of the best values in the luxury SUV category.

— John Paul Senior Manager Public Affairs And Traffic Safety Aaa Northeast, Hartford Courant, 26 Sep. 2026
Republican leaders including Ted Cruz and Greg Abbott are reviving anti-sharia rhetoric ahead of the midterm elections, portraying Islamic religious guidance as a threat to American law and constitutional values.

— David Crary, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026