Thesaurus results for PRACTICES

practices 1 of 2

noun

variants also practises

plural of practice

as in rehearsals

a private performance or session in preparation for a public appearance we held one last practice before the big concert

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as in rituals

a usual manner of behaving or doing the store's practice has always been to honor all major credit cards

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as in exercises

something done over and over in order to develop skill practice makes perfect

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practices

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verb

variants also practises

present tense third-person singular of practice

as in drills

to do over and over so as to become skilled in order to play the guitar well, you need to practice fingering every single day

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Recent Examples of practices

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Others are trying to drive employees toward what are called Centers of Excellence—essentially hospitals or medical practices with high ratings that may save money in the long-term since employees won’t need to return again and again for care. — Alana Semuels, Time, 22 Oct. 2026 The Justice Department moved to terminate more than a dozen decades-old school desegregation cases without asking the court first to review whether the district successfully ended its past discriminatory practices, a watchdog group has found. — Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026 The researchers called for further studies examining whether the frequency of parental cannabis use, cannabis use disorder, household exposure and storage practices are associated with children's health or developmental outcomes. — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026 The company was ordered by a New Mexico judge to pay $25 billion in penalties on Wednesday over some of its data practices. — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026 In total, Oum and Choe pocketed more than $530,000 through fraudulent billing practices between April 17 and August 25, including billing for services for clients who had died or were out of the country, according to the indictment. — Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 22 Oct. 2026 Hetherman said the team practices covering Hail Mary passes twice a week, but in the moment, the defense had to be cognizant of the Seminoles throwing short of the end zone to try to pick up the first down. — Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026 Officials said the department has reported no instances of misuse under its current auditing practices, although 71% of camera alerts involved misread license plates. — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2026 The approach applies manufacturing practices to research and development, allowing engineers and machinists to modify components and processes quickly as designs evolve. — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2026

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Matiscik injured his left shoulder early in the game, and the Jaguars turned to Hamilton, who practices snapping a few times every week. — ABC News, 12 Oct. 2026 Just ask Naperville North senior linebacker John Lyons, who practices with the 6-foot, 275-pound Johnson. — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2026 Goggles, who practices Arapaho ceremonial ways but dabbles in Christianity, liked the worship band and activities that kept her grandchildren busy. — Savannah Peters, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026 The women were also forced into mandatory blood tests and gynecological exams, practices Hefner stopped in his clubs following the article's publication. — Jennifer Hassan, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026 Tóibín practises a sustained reticence, even as fate strikes so cruelly as to give this story an absurdist edge. — Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2026 Reinforcement learning is the stage after a base model is trained, in which the system practices tasks and learns which behaviors earn rewards. — Alex Heath, Time, 26 Aug. 2026 Pande is a Brahmin and practices Hindu dietary and ritual practices, such as traveling with his own pots and cookware, in order to draw water from the well and cook his food. — Aishwarya Lakshmi, The Conversation, 18 Aug. 2026 Someone who practices a memory drill becomes very good at that drill, a little better at tasks that closely resemble it, and no better at much else. — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for practices

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Earlier in the week, Stiles opened up to Variety about the emotional rehearsals.

— Emily Longeretta, Variety, 21 Oct. 2026
Launch campaigns for new rockets often take months before a first flight, involving multiple integrated fueling tests, countdown rehearsals, and a static fire.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of rehearsals

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The High Phenolic Extra Virgin Olive Oil is designed for daily wellness rituals, offering one of the highest concentrations of polyphenols and oleocanthal available.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026
The film’s multigenerational story touches on the cultural inheritance passed between mothers, daughters and grandmothers — whether through old traditions or ordinary rituals.

— Johanna Ferreira, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of rituals

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Those teaching sessions included a five-sided rubber ball that Sweeney had to bounce and catch, and some unorthodox exercises.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2026
Advertisement The architects of New Stanford might’ve avoided all of the above and still meaningfully included women by running parallel exercises in separate pods.

— Judy Berman, Time, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of exercises

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But there’s also the potential to keep the stories alive from survivors of conflicts, who would otherwise die and take with them lessons future generations could learn from.

— Lissa Soep, Vox, 17 Oct. 2026
Families spend thousands on travel teams, private lessons and tournaments.

— Jonathan Alpert OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of lessons

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Celebrated by Hindus, Jains and Sikhs, not across India as a whole, Diwali encompasses different regional traditions and customs.

— Sujata Assomull, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2026
But at sea, Spanish guarda costas (armed customs officials) pounced on British ships, allegedly searching for goods being smuggled in for sale.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of customs

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By definition, tiny houses pretty much always involve working around constraints, but some designers have found clever ways of making a small home feel like a larger one.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2026
Ioannidis argues that, in some ways, claims of scientific progress are a public relations game.

— Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2026