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practitioner

[prak-tish-uh-ner] / prækˈtɪʃ ə nər /
NOUN
expert
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STRONGEST


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The inquiry also heard evidence from crisis care practitioner nurse and, from February 2022, team leader Josephine Baker, who visited Calocane on 23 June 2020, between his two spells at Highbury Hospital that year.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

The patient’s sister-in-law told them a nurse practitioner “came to the home a few times to treat J.L.’s flesh infection and “did not treat the open wounds often because they were too infected.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026

His father is an Ayurvedic practitioner and his mother stayed at home to bring up the family.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

Van Dine published rules for the genre, which John Dickson Carr—a sophisticated practitioner of the locked-room mystery—described as prejudices rather than prescriptions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

This becomes clearer if you assume the point of view of a knowing practitioner of fraudulent medicine.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos




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