prescriptive

Example Sentences

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The process is prescriptive, but the effect is liberating.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026

Besides KSE's annual team summit, the cross-sport connections are more organic than prescriptive.

From BBC • Nov. 12, 2025

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

What I hope will become clear from this book is that one can usefully combine a descriptive and prescriptive approach to what is happening to this single aspect of the language.

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author