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precooked

pree kookt

  • v  cook beforehand so that the actual preparation won't take long
  • s  cooked partially or completely beforehand
    frozen precooked meals from the supermarket

  • Remember, too, that the outcomes of international summits are, in the jargon, "precooked.
  • First, she admitted that her question had been precookedher union had asked her to come to the event and tell the story.
  • Big medical centers, which serve hundreds of thousands of meals a year, buy bulk food from large distributors--much of it packaged and precooked.
Quotes

  • Gigi Sohn in Dallas Morning News
    I think there's a significant segment of the population that doesn't like the precooked and precanned products that come out of the big companies,said Ms. Sohn.
  • Ashraf Ghani in Globe and Mail
    They were super,Mr. Ghani said of his dealings with the Canadian Forces. "They were much better than the civilian aid bureaucracy, because they did not come with precooked notions."

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