prescribe
Example Sentences
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The motion capture system used to prescribe each person's walking change is expensive and time consuming.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2026
The antidote psychologists prescribe is mental subtraction: deliberately imagining life without what you take for granted.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 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
“No. It was very curious. He complained that he felt as if there were long pieces of straw stuck in his throat. When I told the doctor he was able to prescribe the proper medication.”
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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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