adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But comprehensive data collection ran ahead of a capacity for meaningful analysis, and prescriptive content was disappointing.
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Essentially feminism is a perspective rather than a particular set of prescriptive values.
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For the history of linguistic analysis in the West is overwhelmingly a prescriptive and overtly a political one.
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For while there are detailed teacher's notes provided, the Student's Books themselves are not at all prescriptive .
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I do not intend to turn this into a prescriptive handbook.
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Proponents of what are inevitably radical solutions must be unfashionably prescriptive .
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Social capacities are normative or prescriptive , in that they include responsibilities for whose discharge the actor can be praised or criticized.
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The style and format of teachers' guides vary from the most detached to the most prescriptive .