How to Use practitioner in a Sentence

practitioner

noun
  • Once all the grooved pieces had been cut, the practitioner would then remove them all at once.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Wilk, it should be said, is also a practitioner of the weird.
    Michael Friedrich, The Atlantic, 25 July 2022
  • My opinion is not of the profession, it’s of the practitioner.
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Norman hobbled the blocks to the clinic and met with a nurse practitioner who walked him through the paperwork, then gave him the medicine.
    Emily Alpert Reyes, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Aug. 2022
  • And then, the practitioner will prescribe a treatment plan.
    Jayme Cyk, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Mastering the gom jabbar is one thing, and soon enough Dune fans will get to see how that test and its practitioners came to be.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 15 May 2024
  • Barker, a registered practitioner, hopes to make aliyah with her husband in the next year and a half.
    Noa Amouyal, Sun Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Students will be able to go to the nurse’s office, where the nurse will find a quiet place to set the student up on an iPad with a practitioner, Hogans said.
    Donna St. George, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The referral practitioner can refer the patient back to the telemedicine doctor, who can prescribe the medicine.
    Kristen Rogers, CNN, 4 May 2023
  • Today, many think of it as a virtue. Drew Barrymore is a keen practitioner.
    Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 19 Mar. 2023
  • This year marks his 50th year as a Buddhist practitioner.
    James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2022
  • My practitioner started me at a low setting, but slowly increased it as I got used to the feeling.
    Jesa Marie Calaor, Allure, 23 Mar. 2023
  • But the friend, who gets around in a wheelchair, was the only person the 34-year-old nurse practitioner could think of who would understand her questions.
    Frances Stead Sellers, Anchorage Daily News, 7 June 2022
  • Speak with your healthcare practitioner about which form of zinc is most effective for you.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2023
  • Once you've been given the go-ahead, your practitioner will examine your jaw in greater detail.
    Tori Crowther, Allure, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Hebah Arroyo, an Illinois nurse practitioner, began working for the startup Done in the spring of 2020.
    Jamie Ducharme, Time, 1 Nov. 2022
  • This is about options, not limits That holistic practitioner taught me about my body.
    Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Nancy Hilburn, 56, was one farmworker at The Blossom Farm who wanted to see the nurse practitioner.
    Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 10 Feb. 2023
  • For now, the units aren’t available around the clock, in part because of a shortage of mental health practitioners, police officials said.
    Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Fortune: As a marketing practitioner, what were the best Super Bowl ads this year?
    Phil Wahba, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2023
  • There is no longer a need to enter into a forest or go to the shore to find an object that connects practitioners to Mother Nature.
    Helen A. Berger, The Conversation, 26 July 2023
  • The practitioner can review the school's results, meet with your child, and give you their professional opinion.
    Suzie Glassman, Parents, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Geoffrey Hinton spooked many AI practitioners — as well as the wider public — this past week.
    Arun Shastri, Forbes, 6 May 2023
  • At first, the nurse practitioner said there was a mild case of encephalocele, or a growth along the back of the fetus's neck because of neural tubes failing to close during the first month of pregnancy.
    New York Times, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Listen to your doctor or healthcare practitioner's advice and do not veer from it.
    Lisa Stardust, Peoplemag, 18 July 2024
  • But practitioners in small towns and rural areas tend to keep their work quiet, to avoid being accused of enabling drug use.
    E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Only a smattering of hands went up in an audience that included many of the most advanced practitioners in the field.
    Casey Ross, STAT, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Keeping the focus on sunny vibes — the melodies were felt as much as heard — Ivy is ultimately a practitioner of working-class pop.
    Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2024
  • That included ensuring that the records being kept from the sessions would only be accessible by the practitioner and not the company.
    Ian Thomas, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Qualified practitioners typically conduct a spot test to assess how the skin reacts to the laser and to select the appropriate settings.
    Iman Balagam, Vogue, 22 Oct. 2024

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