as in to specify
to give the rules about (something) clearly and exactly
in chess, you can move the various pieces only in certain prescribed ways
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Recent Examples of prescribe
Cancer biology research in the 1960s led to the discovery of cisplatin, a chemotherapy prescribed to 10% to 20% of cancer patients.
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Zeynep Hasgül, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2025
An advisory group for the CDC is expected to meet later this month and will issue formal recommendations for how the COVID vaccine can be prescribed.
—September 11, NPR, 11 Sep. 2025
And that’s why doctors prescribed it to me.
—P.e. Moskowitz
september 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
While medications like Viagra are widely prescribed, well-covered by insurance and boast high success rates, their female counterparts—like Addyi—remain lesser known, harder to access and less effective overall.
—Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 10 Sep. 2025
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Zeynep Hasgül, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2025
An advisory group for the CDC is expected to meet later this month and will issue formal recommendations for how the COVID vaccine can be prescribed.
—September 11, NPR, 11 Sep. 2025
And that’s why doctors prescribed it to me.
—P.e. Moskowitz
september 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
While medications like Viagra are widely prescribed, well-covered by insurance and boast high success rates, their female counterparts—like Addyi—remain lesser known, harder to access and less effective overall.
—Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 10 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prescribe
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Google hasn’t specified if there will be an eventual end date.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
12 Sep. 2025
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The 49ers have not specified what exatly happened to these body parts.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Among them were countless era-defining releases that are still among the best movies ever made—of any genre—from the haunting Rebecca to the gripping Rear Window, and the ravishing Vertigo to the hair-raising Psycho.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
13 Sep. 2025
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Internally, the current workspace contained not only the visible text documents but also any custom words the user added to the dictionary and any additional tForth words defined in memory.—
Cameron Kaiser,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Prescribe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prescribe. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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