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practices
  • present tense form of practice (3rd person singular).

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It said "each child and mother at St Monica's deserved the utmost care" and added "cruel or incompetent practices should have been prevented".

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

Traditional funeral practices in this region also involve touching the bodies of the dead; when health workers tried to block that from happening, residents only became more suspicious.

From Slate • Jun. 9, 2026

The commission has had several run-ins with Meta as part of a broader clampdown on abusive Big Tech practices.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

Defense Department officials said the request was unreasonable because their existing practices prohibit using AI for those purposes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

Those are the beliefs and practices on which we base our life.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad