How to pronounce prescriptive
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“prescriptive” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 209 American · 704 British · 4 Australian · 1 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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rather than prescriptive.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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Government to be prescriptive about.
State Department · hear it here
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more effective than complex and prescriptive prescriptive precisely because we need competitors to rise and they
FTC · hear it here
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reduce ten cancers or something and so they become prescriptive claims too so prescriptive claims can
Intelligence Squared · hear it here
Why real speech
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