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- adjective Of something that has been
assigned orallotted in advance.
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Examples
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Inside, the intruders moved with an economy of motion, each carrying out a preassigned task.
Fallout Catherine Collins 2011
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Inside, the intruders moved with an economy of motion, each carrying out a preassigned task.
Fallout Catherine Collins 2011
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Twelve SEALs leapt the short distance to the deck and took off in pairs to secure preassigned areas of the ship.
Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2 Vince Flynn 2010
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Twelve SEALs leapt the short distance to the deck and took off in pairs to secure preassigned areas of the ship.
Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2 Vince Flynn 2010
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Twelve SEALs leapt the short distance to the deck and took off in pairs to secure preassigned areas of the ship.
Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2 Vince Flynn 2010
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When it comes to the abortion issue in a Democratic Supreme Court nomination, everybody plays their preassigned role.
Context Matters 2010
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Twelve SEALs leapt the short distance to the deck and took off in pairs to secure preassigned areas of the ship.
Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2 Vince Flynn 2010
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But more often, the frames are shoddily constructed and prefab: simplistic narratives that coerce the participants in a given story into preassigned roles, regardless of the complexity of what actually happened.
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ETC3 allows its users to select the parameters for the composition of some random poetry, based upon the “styles” of other poets, whereupon the software goes on to create a text that conforms to these preassigned constraints (be they in the form of a chosen subject, a chosen grammar, a chosen lexicon, etc.).
Poetic Machines 07 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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With his place on the social scale preassigned by birth, Valentin is not so fortunate: “What I envy you is your liberty,” he observes, “your wide range, your freedom to come and go, your not having a lot of people, who take themselves awfully seriously, expecting something of you.”
Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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