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 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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African rainmakers have long served as spiritual leaders in their communities, performing rituals to ask deities to bring rain.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 20 Sep. 2026
These impositions are gradual and incredibly well-meaning, although even their medicinal intentions come laced with the word of a foreign lord and savior, whose crucifixes and tales of forgiveness are at odds with the local rituals.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of rituals

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The reflex to regard America’s earlier representational and nationalist traditions as something to be repudiated, rather than reconsidered, is learned — not inevitable.

— Frank Porcu, New York Daily News, 20 Sep. 2026
The landmark was illuminated in green, white and red to celebrate Mexico’s Independence Day and honor the country’s culture, identity and traditions.

— Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of traditions

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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

Whatever to the silly old poem and whatever to the ceremony and all its stupid little details and whatever to all the rules for daughters.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026
Next up, if the deal closes as expected in a couple weeks, is the plan to start finding those $6 billion in cost synergies between the companies while fulfilling the rules-of-the-road in the consent decree.

— Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of rules

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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

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One of you may value freedom while the other values predictability.

— Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2026
As baseball owners prepare for a lockout, in a push for the salary cap that would drive franchise values higher, insiders anticipate the MLB expansion fee could settle around or even above the $4 billion range.

— Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026