in practice

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What this means in practice is that the businesses receiving shipments cover the high cost of diesel and that those businesses are left to make decisions on how to recover those costs.

From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026

When I press Langengen on how electricity prices could be reduced in practice, she acknowledges there is "no magic wand".

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

His Christian realism provides the most instructive model we have for what a successful version of that approach looks like in practice.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

Stranded or struggling robots became the new Bird scooters — nifty ideas that proved more problematic in practice.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026

Nick made a signal and everybody forgot everything they had been doing in practice.

From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers