Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The name formerly given to the reported decisions of the Court of Session in Scotland with reference to their authority in fixing and proving the practice and consuetudinary rules of law. They are now termed decisions. Also
practiques .
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- noun Plural form of
practic .
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Examples
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And even then, the researcher and practitioner must engage in practics to minimize these unwanted, useless signals that can ruin or distort the collection of meaningful information.
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I'm sure Professor Paulsen recognizes (or would) the reasons behind the admission practics of the Kamehameha schools in contrast to the racial segregation of the past.
Balkinization 2007
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And even then, the researcher and practitioner must engage in practics to minimize these unwanted, useless signals that can ruin or distort the collection of meaningful information.
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In particular she mentioned a moratorium on new coal plants unless they practics carbon capture and storage (C.C.S.), a large boost in funding for renewables, and a mandatory cap on carbon.
Urgency and Solvability: The “We” Campaign: David Roberts Roberts, David 2008
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If you hire someone like me/us to do an ethics survey of you r company or write a best practics manual or do integrity training or an internal fraud or corruption investigation, you are hiring my firm because your comapny wisely chooses to get a booster shot of integrity from time to time to keep itself honest.
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Numerous programs run by the CIA and NSA engaged in rendition practics, communications wiretapping, and computer surveillance. '
OpEdNews - Quicklink: CIA Covert Action Plan is Largest Since Cold War 2005
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Numerous programs run by the CIA and NSA engaged in rendition practics, communications wiretapping, and computer surveillance.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: CIA Covert Action Plan is Largest Since Cold War 2005
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Besides these, which he calls the regular practics, there are all the wild herbs to be gathered in.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various
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Many ` ` paths and -- practics '' would have you believe that they are the only ones who pay proper attention to organic nerve-supply, but it is not true.
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I have no great esteem for poetical persons, particularly women; they have so much of the 'ideal' in _practics_, as well as _ethics_.
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815
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