How to Use private practice in a Sentence

private practice

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Definition of private practicenext
  • Ellen pursued this line of work for 15 years through a private practice in New York City.
    — Stephanie Kaloi, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Kelety has been a judge in San Diego since 2003, and before that was in private practice in San Diego.
    — Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Darden has worked in private practice for the past 27 years.
    — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 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
  • That was followed by a private practice at a local gym.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Spota, who was in private practice at the time, offered to represent Burke.
    — Robert Kolker, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Zaveri is a San Diego lawyer in private practice whose term on the ethics commission runs through June 2027.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Oct. 2023
  • O'Connor and her husband returned to the U.S. in 1957 and moved to the Phoenix area, where she was admitted to the bar and, with another lawyer, began a private practice.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2023
  • My father split his time between NHS work and private practice.
    — Anne Fadiman, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Feb. 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
  • Near the end of July, Biden nominated Graves, a lawyer in private practice who had once led the office’s fraud section.
    — Aaron C. Davis, Washington Post, 19 June 2023
  • The lead prosecutor on the case, now in private practice, did not return a request for comment.
    — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 20 Apr. 2024
  • McBride was an alder on the Common Council for 10 years and worked as an attorney for more than 30 years in government and private practice.
    — Bridget Fogarty, Journal Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Mishkin, now in private practice, led the NBA’s legal department for seven years.
    — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2023
  • After working at a mental health agency for more than 20 years, Robinson moved to a private practice.
    — Sarah Swetlik | Sswetlik@al.com, al, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Another reason clients like Spiro is that, by his own account, he’s won every case he’s brought to trial in a decade of private practice.
    — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • McBride worked as an attorney for more than thirty years in government and private practice.
    — Bridget Fogarty, Journal Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Duprat went into private practice in 1982, while also running a nursery and garden shop in the Jardins neighborhood, and within a decade had as many clients in Rio as in São Paulo.
    — Michael Snyder Pedro Kok, New York Times, 22 Mar. 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
  • 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
  • By then, Bradford was several years into her career as a part-time deputy prosecutor in Pike County, with a private practice on the side.
    — Lewis Kamb, NBC News, 13 May 2023
  • Joan Illuzzi-Orbon, the lead prosecutor in the case, who’s now in private practice, declined comment Thursday.
    — John Annese, New York Daily News, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Tangent Habba worked for several years in private practice in New Jersey before forming her own firm in 2020.
    — Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Liu is a newer addition to the ProMED team, having worked as a physician in private practice, as a biotech executive, and as a member of the boards of a number of science nonprofits.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The council will move forward with debate over a second nominee, Deval Zaveri, a former Navy lawyer who now works in private practice.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Prior to entering politics, the Harvard Law grad, 46, worked in private practice.
    — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The 53-year-old Democrat from Lynn, Mass., had a distinguished legal career as a prosecutor, a state official, and in private practice.
    — Jim Puzzanghera, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Mar. 2023
  • During his years in private practice, Dickinson made detailed drawings of his patients’ anatomies, measuring them with a ruler.
    — Stephanie Gorton, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2023
  • Hawley, then an associate lawyer in private practice, authored Teneo’s founding principles, according to the new member talk hosted by Baehr, and served on the group’s board.
    — Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 9 Mar. 2023
  • But Cooper and her partners in private practice worked with the hospital to bring in midwives, reduce the number of C-sections, and lower the amount of obstetric trauma women experienced.
    — TIME, 7 May 2024

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