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praxis

[prak-sis] / ˈpræk sɪs /
NOUN
habit
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Their qualitative work on the severed mother-daughter dyad has yielded wholly nuanced theories and praxis rooted in the unique “self-in-relation” analysis model.

From Salon May 11, 2024

She said that Jacob’s non-oral autism arises from “trouble with praxis, which means motor planning — how to get the body and the mouth to do what I want when I want.”

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 5, 2023

The praxis has always been and is still being developed by the marginalized and has of necessity to be nimbler than the scholarship, which all too often serves the powerful.

From Scientific American Feb. 3, 2021

Few writers are as skilled at illustrating the ways in which personal abuses of power are not just the result but the praxis of cultural domination.

From New York Times May 5, 2020

Another difficult word which constantly recurs in the Poetics is prattein or praxis, generally translated 'to act' or 'action'.

From Aristotle on the art of poetry by Bywater, Ingram

Frederico Campos, the leader of the law faculty’s praxes, said that “none of our games are really risky or could lead to something like what happened on that beach.”

From New York Times Mar. 19, 2014

On a recent Saturday, she joined students outside Lusófona’s campus to pressure the government to ban praxes.

From New York Times Mar. 19, 2014

“We want to find out the truth, but not eliminate the praxes, because they’ve also made many students happy, including our son Pedro,” his mother, Maria Fátima Negrão, said.

From New York Times Mar. 19, 2014

But since the deaths, Mr. Campos said, he has been the target of insults and even objects thrown at him while walking around Lisbon wearing his traditional black praxes outfit.

From New York Times Mar. 19, 2014

The selections prepared for the stated praxes of this work, will be found as suitable as any.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold




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