Thesaurus results for CUSTOMS

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 Macau, one of China’s two special administrative regions alongside Hong Kong, keeps its own currency, legal system, and customs territory. — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2026 The school could argue that the conference hastily convened the vote, perhaps in violation of bylaws or conference customs, and in doing so jeopardized its contracts with coaches, sponsors, media and licensing partners, and others. — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 9 Sep. 2026 Laws and legal customs regulated the ability of Chinese people to work, operate a business, own property, testify in court, seek education, and form families. — Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026 At the same time, the cost of bringing cargo through customs has risen. — ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026 The rule also exists because, for some less literal-minded people, fading little folk customs — such as this one, marking the seasons — lend charm to an otherwise amorphous era. — Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 7 Sep. 2026 Local newspaper Tribuna de San Luis reported Friday that truckers had blocked the customs crossing there over the visa cancellations. — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2026 The Spanish government will also ask the EU to recognize Ceuta and Melilla as outermost regions of the bloc, a special designation that allows territories that are separate from mainland Europe to join the EU customs union, said Sánchez. — Jack Guy, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2026 The rules of baseball, both written and unwritten, have evolved over time, with customs changing across generations, clubs, competition levels, and countries. — Tushaar Kuthiala, Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 Sep. 2026

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Yet entrenched misogyny and debates over gender equality within the religion have persisted, particularly over women’s access to temples andcertain rituals.

— Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2026
College football Saturdays run on repetition, with the same soundtrack, symbols and rituals repeated so faithfully that generations of fans know the cues.

— Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of rituals

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This is his full-time home now, after years of living in Brooklyn and almost two decades and seven albums of chasing American sonic traditions.

— Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2026
The menu’s through line is the way Bonner filters a whole world of Afro-Caribbean traditions through his perspective as a journeyman chef.

— John Kessler, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of traditions

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Three other three-judge panels on the 5th Circuit -- one in this case and two in an earlier one -- and two district courts have already agreed that rules for prescribing mifepristone are too loose.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2026
The revolutionary idea that the ruled rather than the rulers decide the rules emerged only haltingly.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of rules

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Salt stomping fits neatly inside a growing bucket of low-cost, low-tech, screen-free wind-down practices that already includes bath rituals, breathwork and weighted blankets.

— Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Sep. 2026
At the team’s early-morning practices, many players flip between offense and defense to prepare for any situation, especially when there are even a few injuries.

— Jesse Dougherty, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026

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The company’s twin values of work and quirk can sit uneasily in the distractible, self-serious fashion world, to the point that fashion at Hermès has historically been regarded as something of an oxymoron.

— Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
Throughout it all, Taylor has remained the same person, with the same values.

— Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026