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prescription

[pri-skrip-shuhn] / prɪˈskrɪp ʃən /


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"They see it every day when they go to the grocery store, when they go to pick up a prescription."

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

Despite the striking results, the scientists caution against drawing immediate conclusions about the safety of sweeteners or their interactions with prescription medications.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

The company’s prescription drug plan contract also received a 4.5-star rating for 2027, it said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Compounding pharmacies are pharmacies, you can’t get a drug without a prescription, certainly not a sterile injectable drug.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

A few hours before I leave for work on Monday afternoon, my mom asks me to fill a prescription for her, because she’s scared the pharmacy will be closed when she gets off work.

From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy

In the United States alone, more than 4.2 million patients received prescriptions for the drug in 2023.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

Banga has argued in the past that its work should be driven by client countries' demands, not its own prescriptions.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Today, it offers a wide range of health and wellbeing services as well as prescriptions and vaccinations through its in-store pharmacies.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

The answer should be risk-based policies that protect consumer safety and energy system reliability without one-size-fits-all prescriptions that become barriers to innovation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

The drugstore was coming in to help the doctors, but Dr. Wilde was one of the few to maintain his own dispensary and to compound his own prescriptions.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck


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