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- adjective
Scripted in advance .
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Examples
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Sometimes when you're young, the journey from one place to another, it almost feels prescripted.
A Day in the Life of a Life-Size Doll Kimberly Chou 2011
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Anna remembered the strained, tight faces of everyone who came to pay their respects, the prescripted call and response they intoned with gray, obligatory inflection.
Law of Attraction Allison Leotta 2010
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Anna remembered the strained, tight faces of everyone who came to pay their respects, the prescripted call and response they intoned with gray, obligatory inflection.
Law of Attraction Allison Leotta 2010
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Anna remembered the strained, tight faces of everyone who came to pay their respects, the prescripted call and response they intoned with gray, obligatory inflection.
Law of Attraction Allison Leotta 2010
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What's interesting though is that the crowd showed they probably would not have booed if she did not deliver such an obviously prescripted line with that air of inauthenticity which reminds people of what they don't like about her.
Obama Campaign: Hillary's Debate Performance Proves She Can't Attack McCain On War 2009
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The upcoming Copenhagen summit in mind and the G8s muddle were prime opportunities for a hard cross examination and as usual the toady asked only fawning prescripted questions given out by Milliband beforehand to the toady interviewer.
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They learn to ask the questions that will shape the nation's future, while inner-city kids are being trained to give prescripted answers and to acquiesce in their subordinate position in society.
Jonathan Kozol: Why I am Fasting: An Explanation to My Friends 2008
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You decide what constitutes a meaningful holiday for you and your family rather than shifting into autopilot and following our consumer culture's prescripted plan for what you should do, be, and buy.
How to Live on Less 2008
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By minute 60 of virtually any press conference all of the prescripted presentation is finished, and personal opinions can come out of the mouths of untrained participants.
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Bushco could have flown AF1 to Iraq for this prescripted photo op.
Think Progress » Behind the Scenes of Operation Photo-Op 2005
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