practitioner

Example Sentences

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The rest of his career was largely devoted to complicating and enriching the portrait, transforming himself, as his best biographer, James Gindin, observed, from a satirist into a practitioner of the “novel of compassion.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

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

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

Van Dine published rules for the genre, which John Dickson Carr—a sophisticated practitioner of the locked-room mystery—described as prejudices rather than prescriptions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 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

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