prescribed
Americanadjective
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dictated or indicated as a rule or course of action to be followed.
To limit your definition of art to certain prescribed forms is to cut yourself off from the bulk of human existence.
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Medicine/Medical. (of a medicine, treatment, etc.) recommended or ordered by a qualified practitioner.
Test results for legal or prescribed drugs are returned in about two minutes.
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Which “widely prescribed medications” might the report be talking about?
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026
"If the goal is protecting giant sequoias, prescribed fire is an essential tool available to managers."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
Meilir Rowlands has lived with eczema his whole life, and had used topical steroid creams prescribed by his doctor "on and off" since he was a baby.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
Dupixent, first approved in 2017, was nearly five years ahead of the next drug and is now the most widely prescribed antibody on the planet, treating nine different allergic diseases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The antibiotics that the doctor prescribed for me healed the terrible case of tonsillitis I had arrived with.
From "Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina" by Michaela DePrince
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