prescriptive

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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

Coming from another breed of mom, this would be a prelude to prescriptive punishment.

From Salon • Oct. 16, 2025

Mr. Mokyr argues that two factors were responsible for the 19th-century Industrial Revolution that kicked off growth: prescriptive knowledge and propositional knowledge.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025

“There was no prescriptive timeline to the course that it took,” explains Romanski.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2025

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