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custom

[kuhs-tuhm] / ˈkʌs təm /




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Businesses earn repeat custom by being able to give satisfactory responses when things don’t go according to plan.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026

The thrusters were mounted on opposite sides of a CubeSat positioned on a custom magnetic levitation test platform known as the MagLev.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

Many former students may remember a very different school leavers' experience without custom designed shirts, parties and prom nights.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

On the religious question, Mr. Putin has, for example, made it a custom to participate in Kreshchenskiye Kupaniya, or epiphany bathing, every Jan. 19, commemorating Christ’s baptism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Some of us may have lost our “mother tongue,” as my nanni used to call it, but the custom of tameez—respect—for elders stays strong, despite decades of assimilation.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed




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