prescribed

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The Labor Department said plan sponsors who follow prescribed processes would have a safe harbor that aims to protect against lawsuits.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

McLelland, who founded the National Association of Player Welfare Officers, said she believed "mandated areas of responsibility and a prescribed modus operandi should be put in place in each and every club".

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

Lara Tang, from Portishead near Bristol, was prescribed antidepressant fluoxetine by her GP for depression and anxiety when she was 16.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

My brother really needs to be in a nursing home to receive the prescribed intensive rehabilitative services.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026

“And yet,” she said, as though we had been discussing the subject, “what do doctors know? Dr. Blinker prescribed this tonic—but what can medicine really do? What good does anything do when one’s Day arrives?”

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom