Habit
Practice
Practice noun - A usual manner of behaving or doing.
Usage example: the store's practice has always been to honor all major credit cards
Habit is a synonym for practice in custom topic. You can use "Habit" instead a noun "Practice", if it concerns topics such as manner, society, usual, way. popular alternative
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| known | known habit | known practice |
| old | old habit | old practice |
| good | good habit | good practice |
| long | long habit | long practice |
| Other adjectives: particular, similar, usual, common, regular, annoying, notorious, real, constant, serious, dangerous, little, bad, terrible, new, frequent, general, former, odd, strange, peculiar, long-standing. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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Can't Stay Normal: Yawara repeatedly quits judo, but over 15 years of habit can't be broken that easily, so she keeps her practice routine going until she gets drawn back in.
- In practice, Thomas mellowed considerably faster than originally planned and so the bad habit and planned storyline went way out of tone for him and had to be discarded, with the creator going back to snip off the dangling thread.
Source: Orwellian Retcon -
Sherlock Holmes is in the habit of using the wall of his living room for target practice.
Source: Artistic License Gun Safety
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