Sentence examples for accepted custom from inspiring English sources

The phrase "accepted custom" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a practice or behavior that is widely recognized and followed within a particular group or society.
Example: "In many cultures, shaking hands is an accepted custom when greeting someone."
Alternatives: "recognized practice" or "established tradition".

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The challenge filed by her attorneys was that slavery was a socially accepted custom but was not officially recognized in New Brunswick.

But it highlighted something of a trend among a certain subset of couples who are looking outside (sometimes way outside) accepted custom.

("I feel that it is not the psychiatrist's privilege to be exempt from the generally accepted custom of our culture in which one is not paid for services not rendered," she wrote in her book "Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy").

Any didacticism in the message behind the story - that honour killings are no less horrifying for being accepted custom in rural Pakistan - is cancelled out by the magnificence of Ahmad's storytelling.

As was the accepted custom in informal adoption, paperwork was sometimes faked: women relinquished babies who weren't biologically theirs; girls under the age of 18 showed birth certificates claiming they were adults; babies with a married birth mother were listed as having only one parent.

Finite volume discretization of space, and implicit time discretization are accepted custom in engineering and scientific computing.

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THE St. Patrick's Day season in the United States has its accepted customs, from the deconstruction of the meanings behind a simple parade to the All Things Irish come-ons that dominate public television.

These are accepted customs.

She accepts custom orders, too.

Artisans will answer questions and accept custom orders, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekends.

Puur Anders also accepts custom orders.

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