How to Use preselect in a Sentence

preselect

verb
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  • Tour fee includes tour and a tasting of four wines the staff has preselected, as well as your choice of one of their Madeiras.
    — Jan Burns, Houston Chronicle, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Ford made about 4,000 of them and buyers were not preselected.
    — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 22 Jan. 2020
  • The MyPark app allows users to preselect and reserve their own parking spots at Dadeland Mall.
    — Rene Rodriguez, miamiherald, 5 Nov. 2017
  • French candidates must be preselected by the Culture Ministry before being passed on to Unesco for review.
    — Claire Mufson, New York Times, 16 June 2018
  • In theory, this genetic fingerprint could be used to preselect patients who would respond to T-cell therapy, and screen out those who should not undergo the costly, complex process.
    — Marie McCullough, Philly.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • The affirmative option will be preselected and the individual who wants decline must select the opt-out option.
    — Dianna M. Náñez, azcentral, 14 Jan. 2020
  • In judicial elections in December, a majority of Bolivians voiced their anger at the government by nullifying their ballots rather than picking from a list of judges that had been preselected by leftists.
    — Nicholas Casey, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2018
  • There will be 10 contestants preselected through an audition process.
    — Howard County Times, 3 Aug. 2017
  • In court papers, police noted that the group DisruptJ20 was well organized, had publicly threatened to shut down the presidential inauguration using violent means, and had preselected a core group of people willing to be arrested.
    — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 23 Jan. 2017
  • The event begins with a reception and auction, followed by a presentation of next season’s five preselected shows, as well as an additional final five plays under consideration.
    — Chronicle Staff Report, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Last year, Colgate University, a liberal-arts college in upstate New York, similarly stopped letting incoming freshmen preselect their living buddies.
    — Alia Wong, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Repeat this action for every identically preselected, weakly measured particle.
    — Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 6 May 2019

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