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one who brings an art or science to full realization
a French doctor who was once the most famous practitioner of natural childbirth
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Recent Examples of practitioner
Even some profoundly autistic children can master survival basics with as little as eight hours of aquatic occupational therapy, said Michele Alaniz, a practitioner who published research based on her work at Casa Colina Hospital and Centers for Healthcare in Pomona, California.
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Jennifer Peltz, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 May 2025
Today, the course is online and costs $2,000; after completing it, practitioners become part of the Apollo Health network, which funnels patients to them.
—Lindsay Gellman, New York Times, 21 May 2025
Middle managers need to become role models with a practitioner approach, keeping all aspects of ethical biases.
—Balmukund Shukla, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
Lindsay, an omega-level practitioner of the reality-television arts and sciences, is playing this all wrong.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 15 May 2025
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Jennifer Peltz, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 May 2025
Today, the course is online and costs $2,000; after completing it, practitioners become part of the Apollo Health network, which funnels patients to them.
—Lindsay Gellman, New York Times, 21 May 2025
Middle managers need to become role models with a practitioner approach, keeping all aspects of ethical biases.
—Balmukund Shukla, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
Lindsay, an omega-level practitioner of the reality-television arts and sciences, is playing this all wrong.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 15 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for practitioner
Noun
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Specifically, your function has to be a polynomial—a combination of variables raised to whole-number exponents and multiplied by coefficients.—
Stephen Ornes,
Wired News,
27 Apr. 2025
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Finding Wiggle Room There is no fast, general purpose method for finding the minima of functions raised to high exponents.—
Kevin Hartnett,
Quanta Magazine,
24 Mar. 2025
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The Dodgers at the time hired Mizuhara, Ohtani's interpreter for the previous six seasons with the Angels.—
Jon Paul Hoornstra,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 May 2025
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Ryan began looking for an interpreter, but by the next day, was informed his client had been moved to another facility, further away.—
Ximena Bustillo,
NPR,
21 May 2025
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“Practitioner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/practitioner. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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