So what if Tebow wasn't performing well in practice?

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Language is a performing art that requires practice, nuance, and personality to convey an idea.

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He also introduced the practice of firing each year the worst-performing 10% of GE's managers, pour encourager les autres.

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"Dry labbing" is the practice of merely visually identifying samples instead of performing the required chemical test, the attorney general said.

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In practice, my jaded senses detected no significant improvement when performing workaday computing tasks.

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Blackburn said he lifted weights at a gym and then went to a local park, where he worked on back-pedaling and breaking, running like he would on kickoffs and punt returns, and performing all the drills he did last Wednesday when the Giants didn't give him even one practice snap to watch before throwing him in.

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