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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a past practice" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a customary or habitual action that has occurred in the past.
Example: "The company has decided to discontinue a past practice of allowing employees to work from home on Fridays."
Alternatives: "a previous custom" or "an earlier practice".
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Politico: "The White House budget director and former South Carolina congressman has renewed a past practice of offering guidance on annual spending bills as they make it through the appropriations panel.
We understand our commitment to that dào as a commitment to practice and transmit it correctly where the standard of 'correct' is itself either enshrined in a past practice or in natural utility.
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That expectation may arise from a promise made by the authority, or from a consistent past practice.
But each element reflects a feasible past practice in Australian asylum policy.
They were intending to prevent the forcible breakup of Native American families, a shameful past practice.
He even noticed that our ongoing linguistic practice rejects treating something's merely being a shared past practice as automatically making it right.
One option for an academic schedule would be a significant departure from past practice: a five-week break in summer and a seven-week vacation in winter.
They also said that the subpoena did not reflect a departure from past practice or a stepped-up effort to go after journalists.
Current and former officials said that in a departure from past practice, access to a classified computer system at the White House has been tightened by political appointees to prevent professional staffers from seeing memos being prepared for the new president.
In a sport in which top riders were accustomed to training together, a private halfpipe marked a departure from past practice.
In traditional Secret Theatre style the show comes without a title, but in a departure from past practice its author, Mark Ravenhill, was announced in advance.
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