How to Use prescriptive in a Sentence

prescriptive

adjective

• Critics claim the new rules are too prescriptive.
• The key to this shift is to not be prescriptive with your workers.
  — Mike Massaro, Fortune, 8 July 2021
• Plan with them; don’t try and be prescriptive after the fact.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
• The law is not prescriptive as to how the new funds will be invested.
  — Milena Zajović, Variety, 13 June 2022
• The next step will be to take the humans out of the loop and let the prescriptive analytics figure it out and do it.
  — John Clemons, Forbes, 8 June 2021
• The authors of the Lancet report on US health problems were more prescriptive.
  — Amy Maxmen, Scientific American, 13 May 2021
• What was really important to me was not to be prescriptive at any point in the text.
  — Cody Delistraty, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2020
• Boasberg was detailed and prescriptive in his dismissal, giving the FTC a clear road map to bring a stronger case.
  — Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2021
• The days of buying into prescriptive beauty rules, for me, are over.
  — Talia Gutierrez, Glamour, 5 Jan. 2021
• To be descriptive is also to be prescriptive, in a way.
  — Jem Aswad, chicagotribune.com, 8 Jan. 2018
• The guidance was so prescriptive that most states didn’t bother coming up with ideas.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2018
• But people who have seen the lists describe a less prescriptive process today.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 18 May 2022
• If fitness gifts are seen as prescriptive, they may not be well received.
  — Rachel Murphy, Verywell Health, 11 Dec. 2023
• The best way to avoid a message that can be damaging is to be very prescriptive in your guidelines from the beginning.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 25 July 2022
• But this was a different view of Paris, backward-looking, in some ways, to the 1980s, yes, but with less prescriptive results.
  — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 6 Mar. 2019
• Still, given the vagaries of the last several years, the young playwright knows better than to be too prescriptive about what that looks like.
  — Marley Marius, Vogue, 29 Apr. 2022
• Wilkes doesn’t believe in being too prescriptive with the choppy bob.
  — Amy Sedghi, refinery29.com, 19 Apr. 2024
• There was a lot of freedom in wheel size and choice for F1's first few decades, which might shock those accustomed to the current sport's rigid and prescriptive rulebook.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2021
• Caldwell can’t stress this point enough—these categories from YC aren’t meant to be prescriptive.
  — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2024
• Some 7-year-olds can be bossy and prescriptive, telling their parents everything, and some 7-year-olds don’t hesitate to join in on the fun.
  — Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
• Colleges have complained that the credit-hour rule is too prescriptive.
  — New York Times, 31 May 2018
• In its place, the 2020 version is descriptive but not prescriptive.
  — Kerry Picket, Washington Examiner, 24 June 2020
• Like many academics, Chenoweth is wary of being prescriptive.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2020
• Where No Child garnered criticism for being punitive and prescriptive, the new law shifts the most control over schools to states.
  — Joy Resmovits, latimes.com, 29 June 2017
• Pages of calendars are too prescriptive, and blank is too daunting.
  — Medea Giordan, Wired, 30 Aug. 2021
• Managers must avoid being prescriptive and instead, convey where the finish line is and work with the team member to discover the path to cross it.
  — Shane Spraggs, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• But the impulse to speak out is tempered by a wariness about becoming too prescriptive.
  — David Gelles, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2021
• The experts generally agree that there’s no one prescriptive way to breathe, even when pounding the pavement.
  — Erin Bunch, Women's Health, 13 Mar. 2023
• With a downright firm underfoot ride and highly prescriptive roll testers all agreed this shoe gives nothing back and creates an awkward stride.
  — Cory Smith, Outside Online, 19 Sep. 2024
• Norms can also compel states to abide by their treaty commitments through prescriptive mechanisms.
  — Doreen Horschig, Foreign Affairs, 16 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024