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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Dalziel notes that acetaminophen and ibuprofen are among the medicines most often prescribed or purchased over the counter for babies around the world.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
She added that pet owners deserved "accurate, evidence-based guidance on the need for, and risks of, the existing and new chemicals which are being prescribed".
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Read also: It can take as little as 5 minutes online to get prescribed a GLP-1 for weight loss.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
Which “widely prescribed medications” might the report be talking about?
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026
Gene Berkenkamp and the rest of the Cal boys leaned into their oars and took the prescribed ten extra- hard pulls.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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