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Idiom

put into practice

Meaning

To make (something) a practical reality.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“You should put your new skills into practice today.”

“After reading the manual, the team was finally ready to put the new safety rules into practice.”

“The professor encouraged his students to take the abstract theories they had studied all semester and put them into practice through a series of hands-on experiments.”

Examples

simple

“You should put your new skills into practice today.”

contextual

“After reading the manual, the team was finally ready to put the new safety rules into practice.”

complex

“The professor encouraged his students to take the abstract theories they had studied all semester and put them into practice through a series of hands-on experiments.”

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