prescriptively
- 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
The details of these wings are very carefully and, I may add, prescriptively worked out, so that almost every line, curve, or zigzag is important.
From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Fewkes, Jesse Walter
