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also practising
as in exercising
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 practicing
Exercises include practicing search and rescue, forcible entry, ventilation techniques, hose line advancement and salvage operations.
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Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2025
There are no night classes offered at West Point, which limits the program’s ability to follow an emerging trend in college football of practicing in the morning.
—Christopher Kamrani, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
The artists, more accustomed to the isolation of touring, quickly formed a community, practicing harmonies backstage for each show’s closing sing-along.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2025
Rather than practicing toxic positivity, leaders need to provide space to validate how team members are feeling.
—Mita Mallick, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
Dolphins defense ends turnover drought The Dolphins spent much of the weak practicing how to strip the ball.
—Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
Van Ginkel not practicing is also not good news.
—Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
Known for practicing self-care.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
DeepMind’s small humanoid learned to play soccer by practicing against itself, even showing teamwork.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2025
Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2025
There are no night classes offered at West Point, which limits the program’s ability to follow an emerging trend in college football of practicing in the morning.
—Christopher Kamrani, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
The artists, more accustomed to the isolation of touring, quickly formed a community, practicing harmonies backstage for each show’s closing sing-along.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2025
Rather than practicing toxic positivity, leaders need to provide space to validate how team members are feeling.
—Mita Mallick, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
Dolphins defense ends turnover drought The Dolphins spent much of the weak practicing how to strip the ball.
—Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
Van Ginkel not practicing is also not good news.
—Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
Known for practicing self-care.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
DeepMind’s small humanoid learned to play soccer by practicing against itself, even showing teamwork.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for practicing
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Taking the test involves wearing a heart rate monitor or mask while exercising at maximum effort on a treadmill.—
Alexa Mikhail,
Flow Space,
1 Oct. 2025
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Drink 8 ounces of water 20 to 30 minutes before exercising or during your warm-up.—
Rebecca Valdez,
Verywell Health,
30 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Empowerment Plan started as Veronika Scott's class project while studying at Detroit's College of Creative Studies, George said.—
Natalie Davies,
Freep.com,
29 Sep. 2025
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During Alina’s sentence, her daughter had looked after their home while also studying biomedicine.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Practicing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/practicing. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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