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practitioner

[prak-tish-uh-ner] / prækˈtɪʃ ə nər /
NOUN
expert
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STRONGEST


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An altar in the home of a practitioner of an African diasporic religion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

This should hardly ever happen if a practitioner has been properly trained, UK surgeons told us.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

As with so many land mines in our broken healthcare system, having a reliable and trustworthy practitioner to consult and query regarding the reality of compounded medications is the best solution.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

An estimated one in seven people have used AI for a health-related question instead of seeing a general practitioner.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026

So he sat down and, in his free evenings and weekends, wrote an eight-hundred-page textbook on the subject, painstakingly reviewing the available evidence for the most common problems a general practitioner might encounter.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

He added it would be "incredibly rash to make fundamental changes without a full examination of the evidence and meaningful consultation with police practitioners who have the expertise in this area".

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Tibetans were targeted alongside Catholic leaders across Asia, Taiwanese Christians, Falun Gong practitioners and other religious and diaspora communities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Countless pundits, pedestrians, practitioners and parents are argue over the merits of the case, both online and IRL.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

Most practitioners in L.A. price the treatment under $100, depending on the recipe stack and other added treatments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Here they were, gathered at one table, the nation’s foremost practitioners of what Goethe and Schelling called “frozen music.”

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson




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