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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for practitioner
Noun
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The deformation depends on a single free exponent.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
26 May 2026
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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
Noun
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One of a handful of centuries-old lighthouses still standing in the Outer Banks today, the Ocracoke Lighthouse is open to visitors at ground level and often has National Park Service interpreters on site to share information about the beacon.—
Caroline Eubanks,
Travel + Leisure,
22 May 2026
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My father, Richard Sonnenfeldt, was a German Jewish refugee who fled to England in 1938 and then, at 23, became the chief interpreter for the American prosecution at the Nuremberg trials, and ultimately Hermann Göring’s personal interpreter.—
Michael W. Sonnenfeldt,
The Atlantic,
20 May 2026
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“Practitioner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/practitioner. Accessed 31 May. 2026.
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