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prescribing

verb

present participle of prescribe

as in specifying

to give the rules about (something) clearly and exactly in chess, you can move the various pieces only in certain prescribed ways

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Recent Examples of prescribing For his final question, Reddington asked about whether Clancy's thyroid should have been checked via bloodwork when doctors were prescribing her a number of different psychiatric medications over the course of just a few months. — Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 24 Aug. 2026 During the years that the journal spent considering how to respond to the university’s request for a retraction, more doctors across the country began prescribing naltrexone. — Amy Yurkanin, ProPublica, 24 Aug. 2026 Ditch Drapes That Aren’t the Right Length Instead of prescribing a one-size-fits-all approach to your window coverings, take them on a case-by-case basis, swapping styles and lengths depending on the location and type of window. — Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Aug. 2026 Months later, physicians prescribing the drug widely start to note a small number of patients are dying, despite the fact that no deaths were reported in a clinical trial of the drug. — Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 13 Aug. 2026 The church has no difficulty prescribing specifics when the subject is autonomous lethal weapons. — Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2026 In a world where networks are systematically outperforming hierarchies, why do management experts keep prescribing more hierarchy? — Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026 Healthcare providers typically review a patient's medical history, explain what to expect and provide follow-up guidance when prescribing the medications. — Mckenna Mobley, USA Today, 3 Aug. 2026 Such compounds are increasingly migrating into mainstream use despite a lack of FDA approval, with licensed physicians prescribing them and even New York bodegas getting in on the action. — Daniel Gilbert, CBS News, 30 July 2026

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Two days after Marius was convicted, the palace said Mette-Marit had undergone a successful ⁠lung transplant, without specifying when the procedure took place.

— Terje Solsvik, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
Asking for space—and specifying when the conversation will resume—can protect a relationship by giving both people time to calm down.

— Angela Haupt, Time, 26 Aug. 2026

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The plight of immigrants is one of the defining moral issues of our time, and more and more big name musicians are following the trail Parton blazed so long ago.

— Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
By defining other civilizations as alien cultures, a civilizationist grand strategy might fuel antagonism rather than tolerate differences.

— Leonard A. Schuette, Foreign Affairs, 25 Aug. 2026

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