How to Use private practice in a Sentence

private practice

noun
  • All of them have friends and law school classmates in private practice.
    — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Most, like Phillips, leave for higher pay in private practice.
    — Eleanor Klibanoff, Austin American-Statesman, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Bailey worked for more than a decade as a school counsellor and is now in private practice.
    — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Clarke Ahlers is an attorney in private practice.
    — Clarke Ahlers, Baltimore Sun, 10 June 2026
  • Spota, who was in private practice at the time, offered to represent Burke.
    — Robert Kolker, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Content marketing, when done right, can grow your brand and scale your coaching or private practice to new heights.
    — Libby Rothschild, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Caceres, who’s now in private practice, said the ordeal has had lasting impact on his career.
    — John Annese, New York Daily News, 11 June 2026
  • My father split his time between NHS work and private practice.
    — Anne Fadiman, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Feb. 2023
  • Peñalosa spent 10 years there before moving back into private practice.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
  • He was raised after that point mainly by his mother, a homemaker who then went to law school and entered private practice.
    — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
  • The lead prosecutor on the case, now in private practice, did not return a request for comment.
    — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 20 Apr. 2024
  • Ellen pursued this line of work for 15 years through a private practice in New York City.
    — Stephanie Kaloi, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2023
  • McBride worked as an attorney for more than thirty years in government and private practice.
    — Bridget Fogarty, Journal Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2024
  • So read the ad for Freud’s first foray into private practice as a neurologist.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Kwak started a private practice and is a part-time professor at USC.
    — Alexis Timko, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2025
  • For more than 30 years, Taylor treated the team while also running his private practice in the city.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 17 June 2025
  • Toni Pelayo spent more than 30 years working as a dental hygienist in private practice.
    — Wilborn P. Nobles Iii, Dallas Morning News, 10 Feb. 2026
  • With more than 19 years in private practice, Courtney has guided a wide range of clients toward lasting health.
    — Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
  • After all, while many lawyers move from public-service roles to private practice, precious few head in the other direction.
    — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Goldstein has done it 44 times, more than all but three lawyers in private practice in the Court’s modern history.
    — George Pendle, airmail.news, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Polston would leave Citizens that June to go into private practice.
    — Mario Ariza, ProPublica, 15 Sep. 2025
  • After working at a mental health agency for more than 20 years, Robinson moved to a private practice.
    — Sarah Swetlik | [email protected], al, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The private practice attorney barely spent anything on his campaign, which had no website or Facebook page.
    — Molly Smith, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Mishkin, now in private practice, led the NBA’s legal department for seven years.
    — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2023
  • First, in a tiny co-working space in Soho, then to a proper studio, Greene opened her private practice to turn facials into an art form.
    — Essence, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Simpson would join his wife in Miami in 1958 and open up a private practice in general surgery.
    — Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The goal here is that a lot of these private practice clinics can actually screen their patients for these clinical trials very early on with our platform.
    — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Her only stint in private practice, Kagan left after three years and then bounced between government jobs and academia before landing on the top court.
    — Zach Everson, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
  • But the ways each justice made the bulk of their money over the years range from private practice to lucky real estate investments to old-fashioned inheritance.
    — Kyle Mullins, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Others come to it after working for immigrant defense nonprofits or private practice.
    — NPR, 24 Oct. 2025

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