were prescribing
- past progressive of prescribe.
Example Sentences
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The company had a responsibility to “monitor what doctors were prescribing and patients were taking and how often,” Zailo said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2024
A former staffer had complained that doctors were prescribing hormones too quickly and without enough mental health wraparound services.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 7, 2023
Federal regulators called for the pause because unlike the reports of Guillain-Barré syndrome, the authorities learned that the blood clots had caused several deaths, and that some physicians were prescribing the wrong treatment for patients.
From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2021
“If that were working, prescribers would have ben rapidly disenrolled who were prescribing inappropriately.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2019
And so," she said, when I had finished, "you had no idea that you were prescribing for me!
From The Magic Egg and Other Stories by Stockton, Frank Richard