How to Use praxis in a Sentence

praxis

noun
  • All of our analysis, all of our praxis, is from that space, right?
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2025
  • There is no debate about what the core praxis of a Doom board game should be.
    — Luke Winkie, Wired, 9 June 2021
  • But that radiance is very much reined in by this ultra-tight concern with praxis.
    — Ben Harris, sun-sentinel.com, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Christian ethics and praxis are not a sentimental game of anything goes.
    — Bill Keane, Hartford Courant, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Where the youthful Marx sketched utopias, the mature Marx turned to economics and praxis.
    — Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Attempting any kind of praxis read of The Grand Finale is a fool’s errand.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The adult world is studied and emulated in a manner that suggests praxis but no theory.
    — Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • Now getting those learners also to engage in a regular praxis is not completely easy.
    — Ben Harris, sun-sentinel.com, 22 Oct. 2020
  • The commission isn’t the only local arts institution to embrace praxis as a mission statement.
    — Kriston Capps, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
  • But eleventh grade was too late to adopt the praxis of art and create a portfolio adequate to gain admission to some kind of secular-humanist academy.
    — Nell Zink, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
  • The process is in many ways a form of therapy, offering her the space to channel visceral care into a deliberately slow artistic praxis.
    — Essence, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Few writers are as skilled at illustrating the ways in which personal abuses of power are not just the result but the praxis of cultural domination.
    — Justin Torres, New York Times, 5 May 2020
  • Students would be prompted to connect the theory and tradition of travel writing with its praxis in an immediate, all-consuming sense.
    — Tyler Thier, JSTOR Daily, 21 Oct. 2024
  • What drew them together was their global political vision and praxis, deeply rooted in a history of resistance to oppression.
    — Keisha N. Blain, The New Republic, 3 Aug. 2023
  • In hearing Smith describe his race preparation and execution, Kaino recognized his own artistic praxis.
    — New York Times, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Unconcerned with the minutiae of policy proposals or manifesto pledges, his work was to articulate a praxis of politics to serve a nation.
    — R.c., The Economist, 9 July 2019
  • As political praxis, Prubechu is highly effective and charismatic.
    — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Feb. 2020
  • The egalitarian potential of such processing has inspired thought leadership and praxis within the food industry.
    — Errol Schweizer, Forbes, 10 June 2021
  • Inspired by the community fridge movement in Inglewood, the team wanted to build a safe structure that would grow food for neighbors and foster conversations around abolitionist praxis.
    — Abigail Glasgow, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Where alt-right leaders held rallies and conferences in an effort to exert political influence, accelerationists saw no merits in political praxis.
    — Hannah Gais, The New Republic, 18 May 2021
  • Cohen’s praxis is grounded in the belief that the relationship between the director and the participant should constantly be examined—and working with her family for the first time required her to change her approach.
    — Azza Cohen text By Yinuo Shi, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The complexity of today’s organizational challenges—ranging from global changes to systemic social inequities—requires a shift in leadership praxis.
    — Lourdes Mestre, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • Art no longer belongs to its creators once it’s released — the death of the author and all that — and watching TV isn’t praxis; a series having a certain credo or dogma doesn’t automatically mean that its viewers will, too.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 27 June 2025
  • In envisioning a Socialist future for England, their praxis was extreme hospitality.
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Part documentary project, part investigation of documentary praxis and ethics, Briante’s book simultaneously critiques Documentary Poetics while acting as a primer for new approaches to the field.
    — Literary Hub, 26 June 2026
  • Tabone connects Jemisin’s work to intersectional feminist praxis, Afrofuturism, and twenty-first-century anti-racist political movements including Black Lives Matter.
    — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 10 Sep. 2025

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