practitioner
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Synonyms
exponent, expounder, guru, high priest, interpreter
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The program also provided the opportunity for students to observe and interact with local speech practitioners. — Sam Boyer, cleveland.com, "College Corner, Medina County," 30 Aug. 2019 For a small but influential section of global cinephilia, Costa has ranked among the form's leading practitioners for more than two decades. — Neil Young, The Hollywood Reporter, "'Vitalina Varela': Film Review | Locarno 2019," 14 Aug. 2019 Train more practitioners to provide maternal care services. — Chris Sikich, Indianapolis Star, "Here's how Pete Buttigieg would improve rural health care," 9 Aug. 2019 The state barred practitioners at the clinic from participating in the Medicaid program because of improprieties in treatment and oversight. — Steve Hamm, courant.com, "675M pills: Prescription opioids targeted Connecticut’s most vulnerable citizens," 1 Aug. 2019 This figure doesn’t account for abortions performed by non-medical practitioners or through undocumented channels and methods. — Treva B Lindsey, The Conversation, "A concise history of the US abortion debate," 10 June 2019 Wilbright oversaw a team of LSU programmers who developed CLinical InQuiry, or CLIQ, which gives healthcare practitioners access to electronic patient information, auditors reported. — nola.com, "Louisiana probed possible conflicts of interest in LSU contracts," 10 June 2019 That practitioner may not be male, straight, white or American-born. — New York Times, "Should Patients Be Allowed to Choose — or Refuse — Doctors by Race or Gender?," 6 Aug. 2019 For some practitioners building castells is a demonstration of nationalism. — National Geographic, "These death-defying human towers build on Catalan tradition," 31 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'practitioner.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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