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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
deselect .
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Examples
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The tag buttons can be selected or deselected - in other words, clicking on a button will display it as on and clicking on a button that is already selected will turn it off.
Dashboard RSS Feed Todd Wells 2010
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The Bush administration's own office of professional responsibility issued a report that concluded that, in at least two known instances, candidates were "deselected" for consideration on the basis of their "political and ideological affiliations."
Script Doctors 2008
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Then, of course, there was the controversy swirling around Bush's DOJ in 2008 after revelations surfaced that it had "deselected" nearly
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Just heard from a friend who works for Lib Dems in Newcastle, they may have deselected Greg Stone!
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Then he deselected his buddy, thinking he was selecting him.
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For this expression of traditional Christian — and, indeed, liberal — values, he was not only deselected as a Tory candidate at the speed of light on the grounds that his remarks were ‘deeply offensive and unacceptable’, but suspended from his job as a primary school teacher.
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Mr. Landner was deselected because his statements embarrassed the Tory leader, went against the Tory platform, and jeopardized crucial support from gay voters one week before the national election.
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Ms. Nailer was gone; she had not been fired, but rather “deselected” after the Annie incident.
The Adults Alison Espach 2011
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Ms. Nailer was gone; she had not been fired, but rather “deselected” after the Annie incident.
The Adults Alison Espach 2011
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In other words, they were deselected for survival.
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