practice
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The opening marks the first show devoted solely to the filmmaker’s photography practice in L.A., and is the first exhibition in his adopted city since his death in 2025.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
He came second in 2023 and was third in 2016 and 2009 and said he believed he had won this year because of the extra practice he had put in.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Boundaries are free to build, but they take work — and they are a daily practice.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
Law students educated in this way will be grounded in ethical and principled reasoning and adept at navigating an era when AI tools stand to shape changes in the practice of their profession.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Soon I get so into practice I even forget it’s my birthday.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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Nacua, an All-Pro who led the NFL in receptions last season, was sidelined for a few weeks of preseason practices because of a psoas injury.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
In his essay, Amodei proposed placing “embedded evaluators” within frontier labs and giving these auditors employee-level access to monitor AI practices.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
Vidali says prescribing GLP-1s off-label is becoming more mainstream, particularly in fertility practices, for women with polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, or PMOS, and related metabolic issues such as insulin resistance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
They are calling not only for a full investigation into historic conversion practices, but also for accountability and a comprehensive ban on all forms of conversion therapy.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
In the past few days, a flock of girls had started coming to our practices, sitting in the empty stands and pointing at us while they texted and talked.
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
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He practiced Thursday, but did not practice Friday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
As a schoolteacher, he encouraged his students to journal daily, a habit he had practiced since he was a boy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
After Carter lost the 1980 election to Ronald Reagan, I practiced law in Washington for a few years, before starting the Carlyle Group in 1987.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Together, the chemical evidence and distinctive tooth damage suggest that hunter-gatherers in Sulawesi practiced habitual betel nut sucking over long periods, leaving striking physical changes in their teeth.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
While he was being carried on Wind Being’s back to meet with Pond and Darkness, Nathan had practiced many different ways of saying that he wasn’t going to the Third World.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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Much of my life is dedicated to preaching that art, and practicing reverence for it can be the glue that keeps us together when the world wants us torn apart.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2026
But an insurance policy for your pet doesn’t simply wipe those costs away, noted Quammen, a practicing veterinarian.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Said Harbaugh: “Have to get things to get better, for sure. You know, better job coaching, better job practicing, better job executing. All those things need to be elevated.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
When he began practicing urology in the 1980s, the common misunderstanding was that testosterone injections caused prostate cancer, further suppressing research and treatment of testosterone deficiency.
From Slate ● Sep. 13, 2026
I’d been practicing arithmetic since I’d first stepped into the school, and I never got better at it.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
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