prescribe
Example Sentences
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The document asks all the right questions and reaches all the wrong conclusions—the way a doctor might correctly identify symptoms and then prescribe a remedy that aggravates the disease.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
The motion capture system used to prescribe each person's walking change is expensive and time consuming.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2026
Those pills can be sent through the mail, and doctors can easily prescribe them on a video call, over the phone, or through digital forms.
From Slate • May 18, 2026
GPs in England have been incentivised to prescribe Mounjaro since April 2026, so that more people benefit from it.
From BBC • May 13, 2026
These conventions are “prescriptive rules”—rules that prescribe how one ought to speak and write in these forums.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing prescribe
Vocabulary from the Constitution of the United States
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"Preamble" and "Bill of Rights," Vocabulary from the U.S. Constitution
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Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789)
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