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We all know that praxis makes perfect, right? Oh wait, it’s practice, not praxis, that makes perfect! Worry not about confusing the two: as part of our educational praxis (how we act on our belief in the importance of providing information about language), we’ll sort them out here. Both praxis and practice come ultimately from the Greek verb prassein (“to do” or “to practice”), and both can refer to a habit or custom—that is, a usual way of doing something or of conducting oneself. Praxis, however, is more at home in formal, and often academic, writing; a sentence like “it is my praxis to eat breakfast cereal every morning” might make sense, but it’s not idiomatic. Praxis also has two meanings that are more specific; it can refer to the practice of an art, science, or skill, and it can also refer to the practical application of a theory, as in “democratic praxis” or “revolutionary praxis.”
Examples of praxis in a Sentence
Dayna Tortorici, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
All of our analysis, all of our praxis, is from that space, right?
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2025
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
The South Korean series adds a dash of The Menu’s social-hierarchy tension and a sprinkle of Squid Game’s shifting-alliances instability to its cooking-competition format, but this isn’t a series interested in theory or praxis.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2024
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“Praxis.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/praxis. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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