prescriptive
Example Sentences
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The Colosseum is not prescriptive about when people should visit, instead directing visitors to guidance from the regional authorities.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Nor does it offer the prescriptive guidance found in the ever-swelling genre of self-help books peddled by former special operators.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026
The process is prescriptive, but the effect is liberating.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2026
In its place: a more prescriptive framework that explicitly warns against the health risk of ultra-processed foods, and calls for Americans to eat more protein, embrace saturated fat, and cut back on carbohydrates.
From Barron's ● Jan. 7, 2026
But as Galton’s hypothesis about “ancestral inheritance” had been dismantled, piece by piece, by Bateson and de Vries, Galton had taken a sharp turn from a descriptive impulse to a prescriptive one.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
