Thesaurus results for PRACTISING

practicing

verb

variants also practising

present participle of practice

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 Over the last year, the Taiwanese Navy has been practicing the rapid deployment of cheap and domestically produced smart mines for the sea — a potential bulwark against enemy blockades of ports and hostile invasion forces. —

Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026 Equally important is practicing self-care and self-compassion, which, Broder says, means treating yourself with kindness instead of judgment and recognizing that your patterns developed as a way to cope, not as a personal failing. —

Daryl Austin, USA Today, 12 May 2026 Smith is also looking forward to practicing against Young again. —

Charlotte Observer, 12 May 2026 Before the team left for Montreal, Helenius was grinning from ear to ear talking about the experience of practicing with the Sabres at this time of year. —

Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 11 May 2026 Santa Margarita’s baseball team finished in last place in the Trinity League, but the Eagles kept practicing even after their final regular-season game. —

Steve Fryer, Oc Register, 10 May 2026 Clark spent six weeks at the beginning of this school year setting up and practicing classroom routines and procedures with her students. —

Stacker, Hartford Courant, 9 May 2026 Ambivalent wording is a good sign, said Nedra Glover Tawwab, a practicing therapist and author. —

ABC News, 9 May 2026 As a viewer, your mind instantly jumps back to the pre-Jackson 5 brothers practicing in their living room in Gary, Indiana, in the 1960s. —

Keith Murphy, VIBE.com, 24 Apr. 2026

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One way to do this is to drill down on a heart-healthy lifestyle, which includes measures like eating a nutritious diet and exercising regularly.

— Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 12 May 2026
As workers shifted from manual to white collar labor, more people began exercising recreationally, to keep their bodies healthy despite sedentary work.

— Jamil Zaki, CNBC, 12 May 2026