prescriptive
Example Sentences
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Asked about the market’s rate-hike expectations, Macklem said he isn’t going to put rate policy on a prescriptive timeline.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 10, 2025
Coming from another breed of mom, this would be a prelude to prescriptive punishment.
From Salon • Oct. 16, 2025
The new generation of so-called “agentic AI” would be more prescriptive and could automatically turn those insights into actions such as adjusting prices, reordering products, or tailoring marketing messages, said Chen.
From Barron's • Oct. 11, 2025
“There was no prescriptive timeline to the course that it took,” explains Romanski.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2025
It is true that descriptive and prescriptive rules are different kinds of things and that descriptive and prescriptive grammarians are engaged in different kinds of activities.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.