Definition of "programmed" []

• Of, relating to, or resulting from programmed instruction: programmed learning. (adjective)

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• "“It depends on if the person has a label programmed into his fax machine,” I said."
• "One who feels moral failures are programmed is apt to act differently than one who views moral failures as something that must be faced up to and changed."
• "What we see on our teevees now is a reanimated corpse, powered by some kind of positronic brain programmed solely for evil."