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prescribed

[pri-skrahybd] / prɪˈskraɪbd /


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Pemafibrate is currently marketed only in Japan, while telmisartan is widely prescribed worldwide.

From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2026

During the Covid pandemic, the Fed prescribed more of the same, doubling the size of its balance sheet and sending the 10-year rate, mortgage rates and the equity risk premium to historic lows.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

Instead of presenting an organized system of knowledge, whose stylistic or chronological categories suggested hierarchies, it would free visitors, a press release claims, “from prescribed paths to follow their own curiosity.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

A month before Roo began his course of vitamin D3 drops, Kayan Khan from Sheffield had also been prescribed the same brand of supplements.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

It means effectively not only that you must walk a prescribed distance each day but then spend the night penned up with strangers.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson