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practitioner

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


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Supplying prescription-only medicines is an offence under the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 unless you are an "appropriate practitioner" such as a doctor or a pharmacist.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

The review called for practitioner licensing, stronger training requirements and tighter controls over who should be allowed to perform cosmetic procedures.

From BBC Jul. 5, 2026

Lodge, 71, a veteran practitioner in this rather arcane field, is a man who’s both exactly what you’d expect him to be and perhaps not what you anticipated.

From Barron's Jun. 25, 2026

When organizers went public in 2024, the university said it had “serious concerns — legal, academic, and operational — about a union purporting to represent almost all of our research, teaching, practitioner, and clinical faculty.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 3, 2026

My father loved being a lawyer and was a well-regarded practitioner, but the fact is he never liked the business aspect of the law or figured out how to make gobs of money at it.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

Most of the remaining practitioners have little online presence, and many cannot be found through major search platforms.

From Barron's Aug. 13, 2026

Editing is traditionally a solitary art form, its practitioners working after shooting has wrapped to assemble the story from the captured footage.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

He has less patience for commentators who seek to debunk originalism by measuring its practitioners against a caricature of the method.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Webb's former partner, Ben Kingscote, said the case highlighted gaps in regulation and called for a national system to prevent practitioners operating elsewhere.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

Yet it’s considered acceptable if it’s done unknowingly by earnest but ignorant publishers of stock newsletters, or by practitioners of quack medicine, or by television evangelists.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos




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