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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of preprogram.

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Examples

  • The software includes a customized glossary of about 5,000 terms compiled by Ford, with each term preprogrammed to be translated into one of the five languages.

    How Do You Say... 2007

  • Behe seems to think that there is an extended fine tuning from the beginning where some of the complex structures and processes (that he thinks couldn't come about randomly) were "preprogrammed" (my term) from the beginning.

    David Heddle Reviews Ken Miller's Talk 2008

  • I checked the phone dex and found only the same kind of preprogrammed codes the Haluk phones had contained.

    Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001

  • These and other basic categories must, it seems, somehow be "preprogrammed" into our makeup.

    3quarksdaily 2009

  • These simply became—like the capacity for speech, indeed, like the physical makeup of those parts of the brain preprogrammed for speech and colors and right vs. wrong—part of what a human being was, or rather, is.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • Bok and his scientific adviser are on a preprogrammed course for 2162.

    Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011

  • I immediately called the number back, and got sent to some "Your call is very important to us" queue, and after about twenty seconds it SOUNDED like I got a real person, but they refused to acknowledge my questions and immediately launched directly into another preprogrammed speech routine while ignoring everything I said, so it was probably just another computer recording.

    This 'Velveteen Rabbit' Teaches You The Triumph Of Love. Also Of Telemarketing. - The Consumerist 2009

  • Scotty had already given EMH its order, and preprogrammed the transporter.

    Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011

  • Doctors studying certain types of brain injuries have offered further evidence that we are preprogrammed for language: specific parts of the brain appear to be allocated not to speech in general, but to some rather specific subcategory of speech.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • But I knew that at least the underlying idea that our brains have been shaped by our evolution as a species—so that we are now, in a sense, born preprogrammed to think in certain ways and not others, to perceive in certain ways and not others—has been demonstrated repeatedly through ingenious experiments with human and animal subjects, as well as through clinical observations by neurologists treating brain injuries.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

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