prescriptive
Example Sentences
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“We’re trying to find ways to do therapy so that it doesn’t feel as prescriptive, and that they don’t feel like they’re being told how to recover.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025
Besides KSE's annual team summit, the cross-sport connections are more organic than prescriptive.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2025
Coming from another breed of mom, this would be a prelude to prescriptive punishment.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2025
Mr. Mokyr argues that two factors were responsible for the 19th-century Industrial Revolution that kicked off growth: prescriptive knowledge and propositional knowledge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025
The fact that many prescriptive rules are worth keeping does not mean that every pet peeve, bit of grammatical folklore, or dimly remembered lesson from Miss Thistlebottom’s classroom is worth keeping.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
