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practitioner

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


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“This vote shows the momentum shifting,” said Will Cole, a podcaster and functional medicine practitioner.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

The review called for practitioner licensing, stronger training requirements and tighter controls over who should be allowed to perform cosmetic procedures.

From BBC Jul. 5, 2026

But the current situation across the UK can make it difficult for consumers to assess qualifications, understand what training a practitioner has received and know where to turn when treatments go wrong, says Zargaran.

From BBC Jul. 5, 2026

Han now considers him China's finest guanniu practitioner, but Li is troubled by the lack of others following in his footsteps.

From Barron's Jun. 28, 2026

So they were overwhelmingly solo practitioners, handling wills and divorces and contracts and minor disputes, and in the Depression the work of the solo practitioner all but disappeared.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

Editing is traditionally a solitary art form, its practitioners working after shooting has wrapped to assemble the story from the captured footage.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

He has less patience for commentators who seek to debunk originalism by measuring its practitioners against a caricature of the method.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Experts have attributed the cases to a lack of state regulation, the use of expired medicines and unqualified practitioners working illegally.

From Barron's Jul. 17, 2026

"People assume there must be somebody regulating these practitioners and holding them accountable when things go wrong," she says.

From BBC Jul. 5, 2026

As early as the sixth century BC, ayurvedic practitioners in India had recognized the general symptoms of anemia—the absence of adequate red cells in blood—by the characteristic pallor of the lips, skin, and fingers.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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