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practitioner

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


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His father is an Ayurvedic practitioner and his mother stayed at home to bring up the family.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

“As a practitioner in the pingti market, the brand adopts a ‘technology inclusion’ strategy—offering high-performance products at lower prices—and actively participates in public discussions around product ‘cost-performance,’” Ye said.

From Barron's • Feb. 15, 2026

“As any criminal practitioner knows, federal detention is not a good hiding place from state charges.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2026

Writer and child mental health practitioner, Nina Lyon says she worries about the demands gentle parenting puts on parents, especially when used in an extreme manner.

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026

Cicero was the great eminence of the Roman age—a lawyer, a politician, and so not only Rome’s greatest theorist of rhetoric but its greatest practitioner.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith