premade

American

[pree-mayd] / priˈmeɪd /

adjective

made beforehand or at an earlier time.

noun

plural

premades

an item made beforehand or at an earlier time.

Example Sentences

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Fans, searching for premade dupes, claim Walmart’s private-label Chicken Finger Dipping Sauce is a match.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 18, 2025

Fresh & Ready Foods voluntarily recalled several premade sandwiches and snacks after federal regulators found a strain of listeria linked to a 2024 outbreak.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2025

With little money but plenty of time, the team pursued creative puzzles just for the fun of it, making water animations from scratch instead of importing a premade asset.

From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2024

Next, Holodeck searches Objaverse, a vast library of premade digital objects, for the sort of furnishings you might expect in such a space: a coffee table, a cat tower, and so on.

From Science Daily • Apr. 11, 2024

Meggie saw Mo only in the afternoon, when Elinor came back from doing her shopping and half an hour later gave them spaghetti with some kind of premade sauce.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

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