practical sense
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpracticalandsense
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practical
adjective
uk/ˈpræk.tɪ.kəl/us/ˈpræk.tɪ.kəl/
relating to experience, real situations, or actions rather than ideas ...
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sense
noun
uk/sens/us/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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(Definition ofpracticalandsensefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is in thispracticalsensethat this study finds underlying importance.
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For this reason, our discussion has apracticalsense.
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The system may, however, be intractable as a deterministic system in thepracticalsense, because it contains too many degrees of freedom.
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However, even when people could manage their domestic spaces in apracticalsense, phenomenologically nothing was the same.
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In apracticalsense, few states had the capability or desire to make independent cost-benefit assessments of substantive changes in the lists.
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In addition, the modular system madepracticalsensein terms of uncertainty over staff appointees.
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Western science has found its method to single out systems that are familiar to us - namely, those that we control in apracticalsense.
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As these aesthetes saw it, to live an aesthetic life in apracticalsensedemanded commitments to organized movements.
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While not mutually exclusive in apracticalsense, they did serve as distinct organizational foci.
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In apracticalsense, the issue of value differences can be illustrated by the differences in legal status of employees in public and private employment.
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A measure that reveals information to the public may be impossible to undo in anypracticalsense.
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The very valuable function that the pain signal-system has for the body, directing behavior in certain protective ways, is scientifically known but rarely taken into account in apracticalsense.
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Beef, the meat of cattle, is not food in apracticalsense.
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Institutions should secure the pluralism of monolithic points of view and, in a verypracticalsense, should provide public space for relevant but incompatible conceptual schemes to develop.
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Individuals are oriented by goals, although this does not require agents to have a philosophy or coherent ideology, but only a "practicalsense" of what "the game" is about.
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I have had considerable experience in apracticalsensein this field.
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In addition, excluding chrysotile from the duty to manage would make nopracticalsense.
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They act, as their title would imply, both as advisers, in apracticalsense, and as teachers of children with special educational needs.
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This waspracticalsensefor the immediate future.
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