prescriptive
adjective
that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions.
prescriptively
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a word derived from
prescriptive.
Example Sentences
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But when you approach restaurant visits prescriptively, you miss out on critical touch points with the staff that help build rapport.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 3, 2026
“We sort of prescriptively said, ‘Pull your navel to your spine,’ ” she said, referring to the common exercise instruction.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 12, 2021
My personal margarita history reads like many others, I'm sure: some prescriptively good ones and many more mediocre, concocted from bottled mixes and dispensed by the pitcher.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2021
Though he sometimes wrote prescriptively from — or for — the left, over all he managed the neat trick of neither hiding his political viewpoint in his work nor funneling his work through it.
From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2014
Truths once accepted as "self-evident," since become awkward of acceptance, were ever thus pettifogged out of the path, and fundamental principles have in this way prescriptively been tampered with.
From "Imperialism" and "The Tracks of Our Forefathers" by Charles Francis Adams
