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 The health benefits of chair yoga Research on the physical benefits of seated chair yoga has found that practitioners tend to improve their functional fitness and experience a decrease in how much pain interferes with their daily life. — Jennifer Heimlich, Time, 20 Oct. 2026 That nonprofit group has been building resilience in lower-resource countries for over a decade, dispatching coaches and mentors to educate and train local healthcare students and practitioners as well as building financial and material resources. — Diane Cole, NPR, 20 Oct. 2026 As with many aspects of semiconductor manufacturing, there was a tacit knowledge that could be absorbed only by becoming part of a community of experienced practitioners. — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026 Engineering textbooks advise practitioners to limit any settlement to around 1 to 3 inches, depending on the soil. — Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2026 One of the most difficult discussions for both human and veterinary practitioners concerns weight. — Will Boyd, Baltimore Sun, 17 Oct. 2026 The poetry world in the city is multifarious and energetic, with waves of practitioners reading, listening to, and publishing one another. — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026 Schafer, one of the country’s leading practitioners of classical architecture, designed and built Middlefield from the ground up in 1999. — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2026 Johnson assembled this show in part to correct the graphics arts record, which has both marginalized Native practitioners in its annals and left a legacy wound in the popular imagination. — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 15 Oct. 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
  • And February’s annual Festival du Voyageur is one of Canada’s largest winter festivals, featuring huge snow sculptures, music, and cultural interpreters who bring the fur-trade era to life.
    — Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • Currently not even the strongest proponents of the Many Worlds interpretation agree on how to answer these questions.
    — Philipp Strasberg, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The No campaign accused measure proponents of misusing the state office.
    — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 20 Oct. 2026

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“Practitioners.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/practitioners. Accessed 22 Oct. 2026.

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