'distinct practices' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it to describe two or more practices that are different or separate from one another. For example: "Each of the four regions had its own distinct practices when it came to farming."
In half the cases, doctors had taken an "end-of-life decision", a term that takes in three distinct practices.
I clarified that these five categories constituted five distinct practices, or ways of making claims from evidence, rather than five distinct types of sources.
Twenty years later, Hart and Campion re-met in New York to find an eerie relatedness in their distinct practices, his grounded in music composition and hers in post-media contemporary art.
However, it should be noted that provision and production refer to two distinct practices (Musgrave 1959; Ostrom et al. 1961).
In a landscape full of ever-changing regulations and rapidly developing markets and technologies, opportunities abound for savvy lawyers to carve out distinct practices.
The staging of real estate in HGTV's programming and the staging of economic practices offer two simultaneous and parallel, but distinct, practices of representation.
It is not a variation on rural agriculture, but a distinct practice.
Barker describes the original Dionysus as "arguably the very birth … of the very concept of performance as a distinct practice".
Individual workplaces feature distinct practice requirements, due to their unique location, clients/customers, services offered, workplace culture, norms, history, and employees.
Operating collectively as a public interest law firm with eleven distinct practice areas and housed in its own wing of the law school, the Duke Legal Clinics provide students challenging opportunities to deepen their substantive legal knowledge, strengthen their lawyering skills, and build their professional identities.
Operating collectively as a public interest law firm with eleven distinct practice areas and housed in its own wing of the law school, the Duke Legal Clinics provide students challenging opportunities to deepen their substantive legal knowledge, strengthen their lawyering skills, and build their professional identities by providing much-needed legal services to real clients.
