hard-coded
Americanadjective
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Another tool will let podcasters swap out sponsored segments in their videos, which as of now are often hard-coded into the video file and still remain online even after a sponsorship ends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
So many choices that seem hard-coded into the show’s DNA are accidents or evolutions of choices totally out of our control.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2025
Because Sierra Leone was run as a British colony until 1961, Cleverly said his mother's attitude to British institutions "and its rules came hard-coded when she arrived".
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2024
Samsung Pay is still hard-coded if you hold the lower button, and there’s no option in the Galaxy Wearable app to switch it out for Google Wallet.
From The Verge ● Sep. 7, 2022
He took a guess and printed out the last three to be run; the late messages were probably hard-coded in there somewhere.
From O+F by John Moncure Wetterau
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