in practice

/ɪn pɹˈaktɪs/

/ɪn pɹˈæktɪs/

[phrase]

in practice

[PHRASE]

used for talking about what actually happens instead of what one assumes must or will happen

antonyms : in theory

Examples

1. In practice, it can create several problems.

2. In practice, the concept is run into many problems.

3. So air defenses are always scarier on paper than they are in practice because there are a lot of practical limitations to their use terrain communications networks that might be fragile, sensor networks that also might be fragile.

4. In practice, forest management has become a complicated game of catch up.