PRESCRIBED Synonyms: 79 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in expected

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verb

past tense of prescribe

as in specified

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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California has also made prescribed grazing part of its broader wildfire prevention efforts. — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 13 Aug. 2026 About half of adults in the US with high blood pressure don’t regularly take their prescribed medication, according to a July 2025 study published in the journal JAMA Cardiology. — Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2026 The ship and its crew first have to complete prescribed training and undergo assessments designed to determine whether individual departments and the crew as a whole can meet operational requirements. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 11 Aug. 2026 Hackers can alter the prescribed sequence of message exchanges in a way that bypasses authentication requirements. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 5 Aug. 2026 According to one analysis, last year by the end of September, in Washington, for example, less than forty per cent of the full-year totals for treatments in the previous four years, which include thinning or prescribed burning, had been undertaken. — Namara Smith, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2026 His sister once swapped his prescribed gummy for a plain one without telling him, and his pain relief was identical either way. — Kevin Kruse, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026 In 2025, the province began requiring addicts using the safer-supply program to consume their prescribed narcotics in front of pharmacists, and earlier this year, the drug-decriminalization program expired. — Michael Powell, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026 One small, or not so small occurrence, causes American history to veer off its prescribed route. — Literary Hub, 30 July 2026

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Set midway between Amsterdam and Groningen in the northern Netherlands, the village of Giethoorn is the kind of place that should be prescribed for depression, said Gavin Haines in The Telegraph. — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 16 Aug. 2026 But by the next month, Tufts learned Clancy had started taking multiple other medications prescribed by another provider. — Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026 The subpoena seeks QueerDoc's personnel files, billing documents, communications with drug manufacturers and records of patients who were prescribed puberty blockers or hormone therapy, among other information, according to the 9th Circuit decision. — ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026 The subpoena seeks QueerDoc’s personnel files, billing documents, communications with drug manufacturers and records of patients who were prescribed puberty blockers or hormone therapy, among other information, according to the 9th Circuit decision. — Sudhin Thanawala, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026 Hundreds of millions of people have been prescribed statin drugs to help prevent heart attacks and strokes. — Avi Tuschman, STAT, 13 Aug. 2026 GLP-1s are now being prescribed broadly for weight loss in non-diabetic patients; and without clinical guardrails, spend does not scale linearly with clinical benefit. — Yasser Almuaala, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026 According to medical records presented at the trial, Lindsay was prescribed more than a dozen different medications by various providers from September 2022 to January 2023. — Melina Khan, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2026 And, of course, consistently use any topical therapies that your doctor has prescribed. — Teresa Maalouf, Verywell Health, 6 Aug. 2026

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Iris is currently crowdfunding the T1 on Kickstarter, where it can be ordered for as little as US$1,120 (down from its expected MSRP of $1,495).

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 12 Aug. 2026
Nuclear expansion could drive demand The expected increase in demand is linked in part to US plans to expand domestic nuclear power.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of expected

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When really, this was the foreseeable and foreseen outcome of putting an AI in place of the human being who is already not there to do a good job.

— Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 19 June 2026
To help steer you clear of any paint color problems (whether foreseen or unforeseen), designers share the top paint color pitfalls.

— Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Apr. 2026

Definition of foreseen

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Water from the lakes is also used to generate hydroelectric power and to ensure a steady, predictable flow of water downstream, smoothing the water supply during droughts and when snowpack in the Rocky Mountains is low.

— Matthew Glasser, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026
More seats, more problems Part of the solution is fixing predictable design flaws — like ensuring flight attendants can actually see passengers over high privacy walls — early in the development process to avoid last-minute delays.

— Edward Russell, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026

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