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 As a result, marketing practitioners have a chance to deliver their messages with superior accuracy, which enables more efficient media use. —

Ezgi Eyüboğlu, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 May 2026 Unsurprisingly, Saturday Night Live gets an abundance of screen time, but Greenbaum carves out space for Key & Peele, MAD TV, and earlier practitioners like Vaughn Meader and Rich Little. —

Jason Bailey, Vulture, 27 May 2026 The question of second shooters and studio infrastructure is equally important, as many photographers at the luxury level operate as sole practitioners, which creates a single point of failure on one of the most consequential days of a couple’s life. —

Ascend Agency, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2026 Take Wang Chunyan — a 70-year-old Falun Gong practitioner who spent seven years in prison, in two separate terms. —

Michael Arkush, Twin Cities, 26 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for practitioner

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Noun

The deformation depends on a single free exponent.

— Paul Sutter, Space.com, 26 May 2026
This movement, known as critical legal studies, was associated with the political left, and its exponents, known as crits, loved to disparage liberal theorists’ devotion to the Constitution as naïve and counterproductive.

— Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 4 May 2026