Thesaurus results for PRACTITIONER

practitioner

noun

prak-ˈti-sh(ə-)nər

as in exponent

one who brings an art or science to full realization a French doctor who was once the most famous practitioner of natural childbirth

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Recent Examples of practitioner It’s performed by two men, as is the custom for polka chinata, which Sciarroni studied in 2018 when there were just five remaining practitioners. —

Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 25 Feb. 2026 Health care practitioners who administer vaccines also would be required to provide information about those vaccines to parents, who would then have to sign for approval. —

Ana Goñi-Lessan, Sun Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2026 Health care practitioners who administer vaccines would also be required to provide information about those vaccines to parents, who would then have to sign for approval. —

Cbs Miami Team, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026 More than a decade ago, Karen Howells, a senior lecturer in the Cardiff School of Sport and Health Sciences and a registered practitioner psychologist, began researching the experiences of athletes in the days and months after the Olympics. —

Rustin Dodd, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for practitioner

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Noun

This is an unusual position for an exponent of the public sphere and communicative rationality to take.

— Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
The development of her own particular free indirect discourse form of writing culminated in her position as an early exponent of the Modernist short story.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Dec. 2025