Sentence examples for was preselected from inspiring English sources
verb
To select in advance.
When Matt Keogh was preselected to stand for Labor in the hotly contested byelection for the seat of Canning, near Perth, Western Australia, he was dismissively described by the foreign minister, Julie Bishop, as "the hipster Labor lawyer".
Analysis of the aberrations up to the five-order astigmatism A4 was preselected.
A random sub-sample of 165 VOICE participants was preselected for enrolment into VOICE-C.
An a priori ROI was preselected at a site in left posterior STS (x = −54, y = −50, z = 8).
The starting house in each village was preselected by randomly selecting 3 numbers between 1 and the total number of households.
In contrast to studies that included all patients undergoing cardiac surgery, our study population was preselected according to our existing fast-track protocol.
What is the point of having a convention when the candidate has been preselected?
The colleges figured that students at Exeter had basically been preselected for them.
Actually, there's nothing to worry about; the subjects are preselected, and willing.
The meat, dairy and produce were preselected, preportioned and prepackaged for ease.
Tests were rigged, scores were changed, less qualified men were hired and men were preselected before the jobs were posted".
