--- title: "How to pronounce \"preselected\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"preselected\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/FDjrDeIZAk4/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preselected" --- # How to pronounce "preselected" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/prɛsɛlɛktɛd/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **pre·se·lec·ted** - **Parts of Speech**: verb, adjective - **VERB**: simple past and past participle of preselect - **ADJECTIVE**: Selected in advance. ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (14 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "preselected" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "been in an environment where we're like, "Ooh, it's not quite this." We wanna do this other thing." But we were in the same zone already. So we're sort of preselected for that level of interest. But I think really being able to pressure test to the degree that you can." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 11:01](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDjrDeIZAk4&t=661s) ### Example 2 > "It will look at around 200,000 preselected stars that are closer and among the brightest as seen from Earth." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 1:37](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjEYtvv_qIc&t=97s) ### Example 3 > "We applied for the President's Innovation Challenge and have been preselected from over 200 teams to compete with 15 other teams within three different categories." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 3:13](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KNzf2rM_9E&t=193s) ### Example 4 > "So what the kiosk experience in the museums allows you to do is have preselected questions presented to you." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 32:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5F-5w_mQxA&t=1920s) ### Example 5 > "I was disappointed to learn that there was no room for misfits like me in these institutions. The education system in many parts of the world has been designed around preselected options that young people are expected to fit in or risk becoming misfits. And so going through school, I was nurtured and conditioned to think in the straight line and stay within the straight line." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 3:10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3emv9DIEkE&t=190s) ### Example 6 > "membership of the Liberal Party because those are the people who will decide who gets preselected. So, even if you don't" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 19:14](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVRp4I0HsTM&t=1154s) ### Example 7 > "So instead, it just sends down little postage stamp images around each of those 150,000 preselected targets." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 3:48](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DebEPlk3vLQ&t=228s) ### Example 8 > "I think we'll take a couple questions live from here in the audience, and some preselected questions." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 34:58](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VveDqucdfnc&t=2098s) ### Example 9 > "to afford francisco salary and that's what won this support is helpful nah not you that so far there haven't been many companies who think this way with economy so anemic trade unions questioned the value of the European youth guarantee program hey that's all ahem preselected more companies should have participated but they did not embrace i imply kala that's why the" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 2:24](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtLDAQykJDU&t=144s) ### Example 10 > "And they've already selected-- that's why the Sydney Morning Herald actually wrote the article last week is because they already have preselected 1,000 of them." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 24:06](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKxQGz481Sg&t=1446s) ## Related Words & Synonyms - **Synonyms**: [forechoose](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/forechoose) - **Nearby Vocabulary**: [previous](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/previous), [pretty](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/pretty), [presentation](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/presentation), [preabdomen](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preabdomen), [preabsorb](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preabsorb), [preabsorbent](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preabsorbent), [preabstract](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preabstract), [preabundance](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preabundance) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce "preselected" correctly? 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