as in specifying
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 prescribing
Both Children’s and Denver Health stopped prescribing puberty blockers and hormonal treatment to patients under 18 in late December or early January.
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Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 21 Jan. 2026
Instead of prescribing execution details, Rahm focused on shared purpose.
—Alain Hunkins, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
Najafi has been prescribing it since 2021 for people with conditions such as Crohn’s disease and inflammatory bowel disease.
—Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 20 Jan. 2026
Continuity of care, coordination with specialists, appropriate prescribing protocols, and data privacy standards must be monitored through external review.
—Jason Phillips, USA Today, 19 Jan. 2026
Miller said the American Academy of Dermatology now steers dermatologists away from prescribing the antibiotic to treat acne and FDA has added warnings of the possibility of lung failure.
—Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 14 Jan. 2026
Nonetheless, doctors kept prescribing menopausal hormones as preventive medicine.
—Patricia Bencivenga, STAT, 8 Jan. 2026
Almost four years of prescribing her lover psychiatric drugs will cost a Miami psychiatrist $10,000, part of her punishment from the Florida Board of Medicine.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2026
Rather than directly prescribing treatments, the AI accelerated the early stages of biological discovery by narrowing down viable therapeutic pathways.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 1 Jan. 2026
Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 21 Jan. 2026
Instead of prescribing execution details, Rahm focused on shared purpose.
—Alain Hunkins, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
Najafi has been prescribing it since 2021 for people with conditions such as Crohn’s disease and inflammatory bowel disease.
—Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 20 Jan. 2026
Continuity of care, coordination with specialists, appropriate prescribing protocols, and data privacy standards must be monitored through external review.
—Jason Phillips, USA Today, 19 Jan. 2026
Miller said the American Academy of Dermatology now steers dermatologists away from prescribing the antibiotic to treat acne and FDA has added warnings of the possibility of lung failure.
—Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 14 Jan. 2026
Nonetheless, doctors kept prescribing menopausal hormones as preventive medicine.
—Patricia Bencivenga, STAT, 8 Jan. 2026
Almost four years of prescribing her lover psychiatric drugs will cost a Miami psychiatrist $10,000, part of her punishment from the Florida Board of Medicine.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2026
Rather than directly prescribing treatments, the AI accelerated the early stages of biological discovery by narrowing down viable therapeutic pathways.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 1 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prescribing
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Include your name, phone number and email address specifying February Writing Workshop.—
News Release,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Jan. 2026
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Putting the murder shortlist in one person’s hands, rather than letting the shields do the work of specifying who can be killed off, is a major change that gives the Secret Traitor a ton of power without a ton of explanation for their thinking.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
10 Jan. 2026
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That ability to reframe identity has become one of her defining strengths.—
Gemma Allen,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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Named after a now-defunct Houston theme park, Astroworld was both intimate and engineered for scale, marking the culmination of Scott’s early ascent and establishing him as one of the defining rap artists of his era.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Prescribing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prescribing. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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