practitioner
noun
prac·ti·tion·er
prak-ˈti-sh(ə-)nər 
1
: one who practices
especially
: one who practices a profession
2
Christian Science
: an authorized healer
Examples of practitioner in a Sentence
a French doctor who was once the most famous practitioner of natural childbirth
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Dave Wessner, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
Despite that conviction, he was appointed as a hospital practitioner the following year.
—Nicolas Vaux-Montagny, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2025
Said flirting gets him in the crosshairs of Connor (Aramis Knight), Mia’s ex and a karate practitioner who studies at a dojo run by a shady master while training for the Five Boroughs Tournament, a series of fights occurring across the city.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 28 May 2025
One of the secrets to Birbiglia’s ability to resist the siren song of stardom may be his wife Jen Stein, who, under the name J. Hope Stein, is a poet, an occupation whose practitioners have taken a vow of non-celeb-acy for decades.
—Belinda Luscombe, Time, 23 May 2025
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“Practitioner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/practitioner. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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practitioner
noun
prac·ti·tion·er
prak-ˈtish-(ə-)nər
: one who practices a profession and especially medicine
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