prescribe
verb (used with object)
to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
were prescribing
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past progressiveof prescribe.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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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
The Washington County employee who alerted Madison to the issue said they were “unsettled” that doctors providing health-care services in the county were prescribing a drug that could have such adverse effects.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2021
“If that were working, prescribers would have ben rapidly disenrolled who were prescribing inappropriately.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2019
“I had to totally revamp. … All of us who practiced during that time were prescribing doses that were previously only being seen in hospice,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2017
In fact, he never prescribes it, for although when forbidding is hopeless, there is all the difference in the world between prescribing and permitting, permitting goes down as if it were prescribing.
From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Martha Meir Allen
