preselect

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Recent Examples of preselect Customers preselect a one-hour slot for their delivery. Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2022 Reed used a yellow highlighter to preselect 300 applications that signed voters up for the Indiana Democratic primary without their consent, according to the affidavit. Mckenzie Sadeghi, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2020 The car's automatic transmission uses GPS and map data to preselect appropriate gears for upcoming hills and curves. Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 1 Sep. 2020 But critics fear that the new model, if adopted, will render the community powerless to stop a preselected site. Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2020 See All Example Sentences for preselect
Recent Examples of Synonyms for preselect
Verb
  • Cox was an unknown when director Brian DePalma selected her to play a fan whom Springsteen invites onstage at the end of his 1984 music video for Dancin’ in the Dark.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • For Ruben Amorim, the setback left a lasting impression, with Altay Bayindir selected in the first three Premier League games.
    James McNicholas, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In her autobiography, Gibson wrote about biding her time rather than choosing to agitate.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Some actors might choose to step away from such a thing, or even be frustrated by it or it being brought up in interviews, but Fischer clearly enjoys every last moment of her good fortune from a former era, even now.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • First elected to the Senate in the anti-Iraq War Democratic wave election of 2006, Whitehouse won his latest reelection last November, with almost 60% of the vote.
    Jeremy Lott, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • King, a 56-year-old cattle and poultry farmer, is currently serving his second stint in the Senate, after first being elected to the chamber in 2013.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • That distinction can also determine if insurance plans get to pick the company that does the external review.
    Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
  • But instead, Tuchel picked a hungry, in-form squad and the players rewarded him by playing like this.
    Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Democrats are doing fairly well in the generic congressional ballot, which tests which party voters prefer to control Congress.
    W. James Antle III, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Many real estate agents prefer to review and customize outputs early on.
    Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025

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“Preselect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preselect. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.

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