practitioners

plural of practitioner
as in exponents
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 practitioners That experience tells practitioners what triggered reviews on similar projects, what a regulator expects to see, which exceptions warrant escalation, how particular risks are treated and what an acceptable submission looks like. — Balaji Sreenivasan, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026 Cold Spring Wellness targets practitioners and biohacking consumers with oral-mucosa strips the company says deliver peptides directly into the bloodstream and bypass the digestive system. — Samantha Agate, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2026 In the supernatural competition series, practitioners of shamanism, tarot, face reading and saju go up against each other. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026 But for the practitioners who see mathematical truth as an end rather than a means, the consequences of this race are becoming harder and harder to predict. — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 6 Oct. 2026 From the Thadani family By Trisha Thadani Trisha Thadani spoke to dozens of natural health practitioners, standard oncologists, researchers, patients and their families. — Trisha Thadani Kirsten Potter Tanya Pérez Devin Murphy, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026 Some do indeed help their practitioners, but dozens, perhaps hundreds, more sell worthless self-help through seminars or on the internet. — Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 4 Oct. 2026 Moving, feel-good rituals that seem to unlock something within are a specialty, but there is also a very robust yoga and meditation offering and visiting practitioners who keep things ever exciting. — Kathryn Romeyn, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Sep. 2026 The urge to predictively steer the forces of chaos was evenly shared between practitioners of the sciences and the arts, neighbors within the space of the casino. — Artforum, 28 Sep. 2026
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Noun
  • Grupo Duelo, one of the most prominent exponents of norteño tejano music, will be part of the Billboard Latin Music Week 2026, representing traditional regional Mexican music.
    — Tere Aguilera, Billboard, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Of course, there are also age-old hustles so evidently dishonest that there was a time when their exponents risked being hung or shot.
    — Kit Chellel, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The two defendants in the Manchester case spoke in court through interpreters, only to confirm their names, dates of birth and addresses, PA reported.
    — Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2026
  • The funding for the interpreters and translators would be eliminated.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • That could explain why spinning galaxies can be held together without needing an extra source of gravity from dark matter, its proponents have argued.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Peptide proponents argue that shoddy manufacturing — not the peptides — causes harm.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026

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