practicing

variants also practising
present participle of practice
as in exercising
to do over and over so as to become skilled in order to play the guitar well, you need to practice fingering every single day

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Recent Examples of practicing On Thursday, the league released a video of WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert calling Clark while the Fever were practicing for a playoff game against the Connecticut Sun. David Close, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024 However, the naval industry isn’t new to this concept and has been practicing it for over seven decades. Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2024

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“Practicing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/practicing. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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