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an inherited or established way of thinking, feeling, or doing
the time-honored prescription among hostelers that you do not mess with another person's stuff
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Instead of offering career prescriptions, a good coach helps you to access career expansion - seeing possibilities and perhaps transferrable skills that, without the right prompt, an AI might miss.
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Chris Westfall, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
In other words, if 13 out of 100 people started their biology PhD program with a prescription for antidepressants, 26 were likely to graduate with one.
—Celia Ford, Vox, 3 Mar. 2025
The two giants, CVS and Walgreens, look pretty much the same: red signs outside, candy counters up front, prescriptions in back, refrigerated cases of food and drink along the wall, and toys, housewares and personal items across the aisles.
—Jeff Kleinman, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2025
The Alliance wrote to the FDA last year, saying more than 200,000 prescriptions for semaglutide drugs not manufactured by Novo Nordisk were being filled by U.S. patients each month, and the agency should consider their role in alleviating the obesity drug supply crunch before barring them.
—Bhanvi Satija, Puyaan Singh, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2025
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Chris Westfall, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
In other words, if 13 out of 100 people started their biology PhD program with a prescription for antidepressants, 26 were likely to graduate with one.
—Celia Ford, Vox, 3 Mar. 2025
The two giants, CVS and Walgreens, look pretty much the same: red signs outside, candy counters up front, prescriptions in back, refrigerated cases of food and drink along the wall, and toys, housewares and personal items across the aisles.
—Jeff Kleinman, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2025
The Alliance wrote to the FDA last year, saying more than 200,000 prescriptions for semaglutide drugs not manufactured by Novo Nordisk were being filled by U.S. patients each month, and the agency should consider their role in alleviating the obesity drug supply crunch before barring them.
—Bhanvi Satija, Puyaan Singh, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2025
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“Prescription.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prescription. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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