as in to specify
to give the rules about (something) clearly and exactly
in chess, you can move the various pieces only in certain prescribed ways
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Recent Examples of prescribe
But this physician doesn't prescribe pills.
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Itay Hod, CBS News, 6 Jan. 2026
The same medicine prescribed here for the Jets’ Johnson applies to Jimmy and Dee, husband and wife, each 71.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
People who want to lose weight and are prescribed Wegovy now have the option of taking the tablet daily, versus injecting themselves with the drug once a week.
—Alice Park, Time, 5 Jan. 2026
But how will they be prescribed?
—Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2026
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Itay Hod, CBS News, 6 Jan. 2026
The same medicine prescribed here for the Jets’ Johnson applies to Jimmy and Dee, husband and wife, each 71.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
People who want to lose weight and are prescribed Wegovy now have the option of taking the tablet daily, versus injecting themselves with the drug once a week.
—Alice Park, Time, 5 Jan. 2026
But how will they be prescribed?
—Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prescribe
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The agency did not specify the location or extent of the damage.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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The move could result in thousands of flight cancellations each day, although officials have not specified which airports would be affected.—
Alexandra Banner,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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Millennials, typically defined as individuals born between the early 1980s and the mid-1990s, are now at a point in their lives where their generational nostalgia is front and center.—
Saba Hamedy,
NBC news,
7 Nov. 2025
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The next two years will test how well Republicans can walk that line, using Mamdani to define the left without letting Newsom define himself.—
Samantha-Jo Roth,
The Washington Examiner,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Prescribe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prescribe. Accessed 8 Jan. 2026.
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