prescreen
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of prescreen
Example Sentences
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You can prescreen it, but who are you prescreening it to?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2025
Many need to prescreen and train volunteers, which is time-consuming.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2022
Online advertisements, for example, are generally done through embedding, and the website operator often does not prescreen the ads.
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2018
But I worry that companies using automated systems to prescreen candidates will discount my experience as irrelevant because of my title.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2016
“They just make you audition to, like, prescreen you,” Joe said.
From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez
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