Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To select beforehand, usually according to a specific criterion.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To select beforehand.
Wiktionary
- v. To select in advance.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To select beforehand.
Examples
“Imagine a Google where only ads from those whom you preselect are displayed.”
“In a recent radio interview, he said Mr. Cuomo and others speaking at the event are "going to read something which we preselect.”
“He believes that we can be creative by acquiring the right series of "repertoires"; that we can "preselect the kind of brain we will have by choosing richly valued experiences.”
“He believes that we can be whatever we choose to be, and we can "preselect the kind of brain we will have by choosing richly valued experiences.”
“He believes that we can be creative by acquiring the right series of "portfolios"; that we can "preselect the kind of brain we will have by choosing richly valued experiences.”
The Huffington Post: John M. Eger: Right Brained People in a Left Brained World
“Are human rights indivisible, or only permitted for the groups you preselect?”
The Huffington Post: David Harris: To the Free Gaza Movement
“The McCain campaign did not precisely preselect the crowd, or screen the questions, but the invite list was controlled, and the general public was not invited.”
“This conclusion represents one of the logical fallacies Taleb shows we all fall into where we "preselect segments of the seen and generalize from it to the unseen: the error of confirmation.”
The Huffington Post: Andrew Winston: The Competing Black Swans of Climate Change
“It is also possible to create an inclusion list to preselect sites to include.”
“We (Americans) have done what no other country has done: Participate in a democratic process with two historic candidates – one female and one African American, neither of whom had the opportunity to preselect their race or gender.”
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