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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
preestablish .
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Examples
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Rather, their brains come prefitted with an area for absorbing linguistic information—not just absorbing it, but actually sorting the bits of speech they first hear into preestablished categories.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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Pakistani terrorists functioned like commandos, making an amphibious landing near Mumbai, infiltrating the city, converging on a set of preestablished targets and killing at least 173 people, mainly with AK-47s.
Al-Qaeda's new strategy: Less apocalypse, more street fighting Steven Simon 2010
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Rather, their brains come prefitted with an area for absorbing linguistic information—not just absorbing it, but actually sorting the bits of speech they first hear into preestablished categories.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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Rather, their brains come prefitted with an area for absorbing linguistic information—not just absorbing it, but actually sorting the bits of speech they first hear into preestablished categories.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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Rather, their brains come prefitted with an area for absorbing linguistic information—not just absorbing it, but actually sorting the bits of speech they first hear into preestablished categories.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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As with Boehner's preestablished commitment to more spending on Medicare, political parties put rewarding their constituencies -- in the GOP's case rich people and old people -- above ideology.
Why White House may cave on Bush tax cuts Adam Serwer 2010
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“Death is usually due to the failure of a preestablished escape mechanism.”
Spider Bones Kathy Reichs 2010
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The second is that if these problems arose, the companies activated a response plan to halt the suspected violation immediately, to investigate the circumstances thoroughly and in an unbiased manner and to penalize guilty perpetrators according to preestablished guidelines.
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The second is that if these problems arose, the companies activated a response plan to halt the suspected violation immediately, to investigate the circumstances thoroughly and in an unbiased manner and to penalize guilty perpetrators according to preestablished guidelines.
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On the surfaceIn the days following the crash, nearly 30 vessels sweep through preestablished search grids in rows of three, about a quarter mile apart, looking between the boats for bodies and debris.
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