PRESELECT Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

preselect

verb

Definition of preselect

as in to select

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Recent Examples of preselect Travelers who want a meat-free meal on international routes should preselect their meals while purchasing their tickets or during check-in. — cleveland, 29 May 2022 Jones, a philosophy professor, frequently presents her students with ethical conundrums, such as whether potential parents should preselect embryos with desirable traits. — Washington Post, 29 Mar. 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 See All Example Sentences for preselect

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Fatherland, directed and co-written by Paweł Pawlikowski (Ida), has been selected by the Polish selection committee as its official submission for Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards.

— Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2026
Canal Edge, a company controlled by billionaire Justin Ishbia, a minority owner of the White Sox who could purchase majority ownership in the near future, was selected to develop Amtrak’s new facility.

— Brian J. Rogal, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of select

Verb

Eve is designed to complement, not replace, a wheelchair, offering another mobility option for moments when users choose to be upright.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2026
Merz could, at least in theory, choose to turn over the task of managing his party to someone else and concentrate on running the country.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of choose

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State elections for parliament seats, which in turn elect a government and a governor, were held in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and in the city of Berlin.

— Esme Nicholson, NPR, 21 Sep. 2026
George Kell, Hal Newhouser, Jim Bunning, Sparky Anderson, Jack Morris and Alan Trammell have been elected since then with the Tigers as their primary team, but they weren't voted in by the BBWAA.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of elect

Verb

My mother picks me up off the floor, pulling me across the hall, into my bedroom, into bed.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026
Cellphone camera footage broadcast by CBS Los Angeles shows the snake on a beach at night and someone trying to use what appears to be the base of a palm frond to pick it up and toss it back into the water.

— Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of pick

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In a deeply personal exhibition, the enigmatic French photographer Ilion Huit, who prefers to hide behind his Leica M6, unveiled to the world his most intimate interior musings in an exhibition at Icicle Cultural Space in Shanghai.

— Denni Hu, Footwear News, 19 Sep. 2026
One of the most surprising findings, Randler said, was that people tended to prefer more intricate birdsongs.

— Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2026

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