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  • adjective Of, relating to, or resulting from programmed instruction.
  • adjective Relating to or resulting from a genetic program.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of program.

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Examples

  • “It depends on if the person has a label programmed into his fax machine,” I said.

    CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PATRICIA CORNWELL 1993

  • “It depends on if the person has a label programmed into his fax machine,” I said.

    CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PATRICIA CORNWELL 1993

  • “It depends on if the person has a label programmed into his fax machine,” I said.

    CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PATRICIA CORNWELL 1993

  • “It depends on if the person has a label programmed into his fax machine,” I said.

    CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PATRICIA CORNWELL 1993

  • One who feels moral failures are programmed is apt to act differently than one who views moral failures as something that must be faced up to and changed.

    Assessing Fault 2009

  • One who feels moral failures are programmed is apt to act differently than one who views moral failures as something that must be faced up to and changed.

    Assessing Fault 2009

  • ` ` Such changes could have been programmed from the beginning, becoming operative when all the factors were ready to work in coordination. ''

    Lest there be any misunderstanding ... Frank Wilson 2006

  • What we see on our teevees now is a reanimated corpse, powered by some kind of positronic brain programmed solely for evil.

    Think Progress » Rumsfeld: War Critics Being Manipulated By Zarqawi and Bin Laden’s ‘Media Committees’ 2006

  • I seem to be on this anit-socialization kick, not because I don't like people, but because I think we've been programmed from a very young age, for the wrong kind of socialization.

    Archive 2005-10-01 2005

  • I seem to be on this anit-socialization kick, not because I don't like people, but because I think we've been programmed from a very young age, for the wrong kind of socialization.

    One Day Alone 2005

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