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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of prewarn.

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Examples

  • This is a swollen, dripping, butter-yellow organ that I could never with all my years of veterinary medicine identify as a liver if I hadnt been prewarned that thats what it is.

    The Foie Gras Wars Mark Caro 2009

  • Flagging on Filings Here are some names that prewarned or preannounced:

    New Chapter in Bankruptcy: 2009

  • This is a swollen, dripping, butter-yellow organ that I could never with all my years of veterinary medicine identify as a liver if I hadnt been prewarned that thats what it is.

    The Foie Gras Wars Mark Caro 2009

  • As for Andy's suggestion of the possibility of losing the story if Downing Street were prewarned, I have great faith in Dizzy's ability to keep records.

    Has Downing Street put anonymous security officer at risk? 2008

  • But one measure of just how it fell into the category of another routine military operation -- senior commanders here, senior officials here, really hadn't been prewarned about it.

    CNN Transcript Mar 17, 2006 2006

  • Most of those attacks were prewarned with telephone warnings to keep civilians away, that their intent was lot more political than to kill innocent civilians, whereas this, analysts say, was directed at civilians in the most vulnerable of locations, which is the trap of an underground station.

    CNN Transcript Jul 7, 2005 2005

  • You are of course free to omit it, but be prewarned that the dish will not be nearly as flavorful.

    The Accidental Gourmet Sally Sondheim 2003

  • In contrast to the al-Manar report, this diatribe includes such absurd and provocative anti-Semitic statements as "the Jews knew and were prewarned" about 9/11.

    Palestine Blogs aggregator 2010

  • In contrast to the al-Manar report, this diatribe includes such absurd and provocative anti-Semitic statements as "the Jews knew and were prewarned" about 9/11.

    iToot Stream 2010

  • 27-Nov-2008 11:15:00 ....if someone in the tory party had done a decent background check with his previous employers, they may have been prewarned.

    Mark Clarke: Womaniser and general bastard? 2008

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