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in practice

Meaning

in practice

really, in effect. Not hypothetically.
The new tax should have helped the farming community. But in practice farmers generally appear to be worse off than before.

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A bowl game loss to Louisville coupled with a fight in practice that Moorhead tried to downplay led to his dismissal. Source: Internet

A condition stating that the Zeroth Law must not be broken was added to the original Three Laws, although Asimov recognized the difficulty such a law would pose in practice. Source: Internet

A consequence of sensitivity to initial conditions is that if we start with only a finite amount of information about the system (as is usually the case in practice), then beyond a certain time the system will no longer be predictable. Source: Internet

A criticism by Elliot N. Dorff : In order to carry out the fundamentalist program in practice, one would need a perfect understanding of the ancient language of the original text, if indeed the true text can be discerned from among variants. Source: Internet

Additionally, community centers have tended in practice to distance themselves from the psychiatric/medical model and have continued to see themselves as representing a culture of resistance or opposition to psychiatry's authority. Source: Internet

A consensus regarding practice (or change in practice) has not appeared as a result of the studies. Source: Internet

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