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How to pronounce prescriptively

“prescriptively” pronunciation in British and American English

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  1. prescriptively is everyone tracking there prescript of what we ought to do practice

    Visual Theology

  2. I do not believe that it is for the Government to prescriptively direct colleges, but the

    The Scottish Parliament

  3. to the national and global discussion on the costs and the benefits of more prescriptively regulating

    FTC

  4. proposed descriptively and prescriptively how to compensate for confirmation bias whenever a theory appears to you

    ESC European Skeptics Congress

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