I chose to believe in the possibility that there was some perfectly pre-written story that I was only playing a role in, but there was no pre-written story for Brandon and me.
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They had simply put their signatures to a pre-written document.
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In truth, the metal markets are following a pre-written script.
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It has a pre-written letter to send to the FCC.
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Trump is almost comically stiff while reading a pre-written speech.
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For real-life victims, stalking doesn't come with a pre-written script.
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To use a pre-written function, we have to follow its rules.
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Clicking this button will open a pre-written LinkedIn message to your connection.
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Plus, is anyone else hearing a pre-written Bachelor premiere reel in all this?
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Another detail that suggests the statement was pre-written, or at least heavily workshopped?
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But then there would be a pre-written joke and everything would come crashing down.
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"The audience is protected because the jokes have been pre-written for them," she said.
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Here's how to do it using either a pre-written file or adding them as you go:How to add subtitles on YouTube by uploading a pre-written fileBefore you get started, check that the file type you want to upload is supported on YouTube.1.
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The Helix team redrew the form so that doctors just had to circle a pre-written unit.
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Our society comes with a pre-written script about how Black people should act and present themselves.
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Users will be able to respond to these messages as well, but using only pre-written responses.
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As part of that effort, staff are provided pre-written messages to share online, the Journal reported.
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These comments are often identical, with users simply attaching their names to statements pre-written by the groups.
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It's a refreshing and unexpected change in a world of "reality" where the script seems so pre-written.
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They had pre-written a giant, amazing suitcase lead in the New York Times about Hillary Clinton winning.
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Giving a bland or pre-written answer won't get the hiring manger excited about you as a candidate.
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"I've been painting my entire life," Kris says in a pre-written speech after being introduced as artist Kris Jenné.
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You can also set it up to auto-like, auto-follow, and automatically send pre-written messages to your followers.
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Quick Replies, as the latter feature is called, lets businesses respond to common questions from customers with pre-written replies.
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Without a pre-written line of dialogue, he often has nothing to say, stumbling over his answers or remaining silent.
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Camacho plans to march to the presidential palace to deliver a pre-written letter of resignation for Morales to sign.
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Woodcock sold "bad financial products, a kind of sub-prime insurance" over the phone, working from a pre-written script.
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This means more sophisticated tactics, like using Tweetdeck to schedule pre-written tweets to mimic the posting behaviors of humans.
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I love it when there's breaking news and we throw out the pre-written scripts and I'm required to ad lib.
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The guests interact mostly with "non-player characters" in pre-written scripts who send them on side quests and other adventures.
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Libraries are collections of pre-written code developers can share and reuse to save time instead of writing everything from scratch.
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The site has also pre-written messages of support you can tweet out with only the click of a button here.
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Clicking on "Contact Congress" takes you to another page with a pre-written letter that will be sent to the FCC.
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But Greaves' improvisations differ from Antin's in that they are performed upon a pre-written text rather than conjured ex nihilo.
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On a call with investors and the media after its earnings report, Zuckerberg recited a pre-written speech defending the company's policies.
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Pre-written messages let drivers and riders let each other know they'll "Be right there" or "I've arrived" with a single tap.
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It differs from pretty much all other Mercury Program recordings in that we had no pre-written material going into the session.
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It isn't always easy, and there isn't a pre-written script explaining how to do it, but coming out can be freeing.
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His comments were pre-written and the questions were chosen out of a long list, so the answers were prepared as well.
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INGRAHAM: We&aposve heard from other border patrol agents tonight that oftentimes people show up at the border with a pre-written script.
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The British musician worked with Northern Irish producer David Holmes, who told Gallagher not to bring any pre-written songs to their sessions.
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" Another wrote that this pre-written note was part of a bigger conspiracy: "This whole Taylor Swift, Kim & Kanye drama is set up.
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It prods you to share your location when someone asks "Where are you?" or offers simple pre-written replies within conversations, and more.
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Saying the words of unity and brotherhood in a pre-written speech following the nine worst days of your presidency is one thing.
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Neither realized what was going on until they showed up, were given pre-written signs, and expected to act like supporters of Wanzhou.
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"That 160 million dollars that you are willing to waste on a pointless plebiscite is totally unnecessary," Mills said, reading a pre-written letter.
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B. Sketch vines were fantastic and all, but nothing beats the organic Vines that are not pre-written and just capture random spontaneous moments.
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Guccifer 2202 had pre-written remarks read at the Future Of Cyber Security conference by Tim Holmes, head of the U.K. Cyber News Group.
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These games give you a pre-written passage, and challenge you to type that passage as quickly as you can — without making a typo.
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Gamble's email further points employees to a website that asks them to "make your voice heard" by signing a pre-written letter to the governor.
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"I breathed a sigh of relief knowing that we had pre-written an enormous Scalia obituary a couple of years ago," Mr. Liptak told me.
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However, that's not where he stopped once co-presenter and Latinx chef José Andrés joked he would follow the Oscars "recipe," or pre-written speech.
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But for as little as $6,000 the researchers used the firms to plant four pre-written articles on websites, some of which were lesser known.
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All the evidence suspiciously pointed to a bot army that was using pre-written source material to make its bots seem like semi-coherent human beings.
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"This could not be any more of a pre-written speech if she was reading off of notecards," one viewer said of Grimaldi's response to Viall.
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The movies never did poorly by any means, but when the franchise reached its pre-written conclusion, the box office numbers had fallen by $200 million.
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Immersive films, or games, depending on how one wants to classify the emerging field, are already available with pre-written scripts for users to pick from.
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In fact, Spicer fumbled through his Tuesday press conference so much, it felt like he was living out a pre-written, cringe-worthy scene from Veep.
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And while the questions and answers have been kept confidential -- pending review for classified information -- many witnesses have released their pre-written statements to the press.
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They saw Apple make its move, and they dusted off what must have been pre-written statements that had been sitting in someone's drafts for months.
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This app gives you several pre-written quick replies to choose from, so you can respond to messages on the fly without taking your smartphone out.
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For each one, she read me a long, pre-written paragraph of instructions and disclaimers—verbatim, even if she had repeated the same words just before.
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Now both users and drivers will see the most common messages pre-written and sendable with the touch of a button so they don't have to type.
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"This helps explain why many trans students are pushed out of schools and why nearly half of trans youth have considered suicide," the pre-written postcards read.
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Throughout the turbulence, Perez must listen closely to scroll through pre-written script, then pause and recalibrate when the president chooses to go in a different direction.
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Yes, the man has launched a thousand pre-written obits, yet he's still here, delivering the same marathon performances with the power and intensity of an Olympian.
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And perhaps the most eerie front page goes to the Birmingham News, which had pre-written and laid out its front page anticipating a Hillary Clinton win:
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And, when we say freestyle, we literally mean off-the-dome flows -- not those perfectly delivered ciphers you hear on radio shows (which are often pre-written).
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Today marks the release of the 13th edition of their "Defending Life" playbook — a collection of pre-written, anti-abortion laws the group gives to state legislators.
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According to The New York Times, an email drafted by State Department diplomats asked Haley's office to rely on pre-written "building blocks" when preparing her remarks.
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As opposed to her two novels and her previous collection of essays, Sidewalks, it didn't come out of "experiences that were pre-written in my mind," she says.
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Pulling out a list of pre-written questions can be a major turn off especially if the interviewer has spent a lot of time describing the job position.
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ELIZA used a pattern matching program (basically choosing one word from the input and matching it to a pre-written phrase) to give the illusion of understanding the conversation.
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Mostly you're dealing with a few pre-written one-liners and a highly ergonomic API: In contrast, here's Apple's introduction for developers on making an ARKit app in Xcode.
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There's a feature in Playthings flirting with that, where users play a pre-written song by hitting gummy bear and sprinkle notes that fly at them in proper order.
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He told the site that though someone broke into the city's messaging system and added undead references to some pre-written alerts, the city has since removed those messages.
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As I type (it doesn't matter what keys I hit, the text comes out in pre-written nonsense) more windows appear and overlap, asking me to click various options.
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Grace may also be hesitant to interact with hosts because she's on an independent journey through the parks — one that has nothing to do with the park's pre-written narratives.
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The staffers will be aided by Outvote, an app that allows users to send pre-written texts, post to social media platforms and then send data back to the campaign.
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By opening the "ask" tab on the Lighthouse app, users can manually tap pre-written prompts to set up pings or simply talk to the app to achieve the same result.
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But partly because they were pre-written for a different context — or for no context — and partly because they tend to cycle through one generic emotion, they make character development difficult.
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Harry Potter's parents and the rest of the Marauders have novel-length adventures of their own, adventures that aren't beholden to J.K. Rowling's text and the pre-written endings she supplied.
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Instead, FEMA officials confer with other government agencies and the White House, select one of several pre-written messages, customize the message to fit the particular emergency and send it out.
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There's no doubt in Metta World Peace's mind that LeBron will bring a title to the Lakers ... 'cause he's telling TMZ Sports it's already been pre-written by the basketball gods!!
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The company today introduced automated "welcome" messages for customers who send a DM to a brand, along with "quick replies" that let customers choose from pre-written messages to complete common tasks.
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It soon becomes clear that these players, along with the rest of the cast, have penned pre-written journals, which have been scattered across the island for the other castaways to find.
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This discourse's presence in pre-written coverage represents an effort by websites to turn Westworld into another consistent traffic-generating series in the vein of Game of Thrones or The Walking Dead.
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After Katrina, FEMA staff led an effort to get military authorizations pre-written and approved, so when another disaster hit, troops would require only a nod from authorities to move into action.
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He's participated in extensive interviews with The Washington Post and The New York Times and delivered a speech -- notable because it was carefully pre-written -- to the leading pro-Israel group in Washington.
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Shadowhammer's malware checked if a system it infected was a pre-written list of around 600 computers it was specifically looking for, using unique identifiers in the networking hardware known as MAC addresses.
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At the table in Hong Kong we knew none of us were going to free Omar Khadr, but the Canadians did their job and I did mine, pre-written talking points all around.
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It's not clear how the whole thing works, but app lets you pose (possibly pre-written) questions to your friends and use the "Miifoto" feature to take and share photos using your Mii.
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And I'm sure that there are similar pre-written executive orders and draft legislation waiting on shelves in Washington offices or bunker safes ready to be unveiled in the moment of a catastrophe.
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Screenshot: Ewing Police DepartmentThe emails show that Ewing P.D. used one of Ring's pre-written press releases when announcing its adoption of the company's Neighbors app, inserting a quote attributed to Chief Stemler.
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A trembling and intimidated Altrincham pulls out his pre-written piece of paper and reads the main suggestions, from eliminating the elitist Debutant's Ball to allowing divorced people to move freely in royal circles.
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They write up a title and body text, add an image and select a call to action like a button people can hit to visit their website or a choice of pre-written replies.
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During one prickly back-and-forth, Dubelier accused the judge of favoring the prosecution in the case and of reading pre-written rulings from the bench after pretending to entertain arguments from both sides.
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Because I'm not the creative type of person who wants to decorate each page herself, I crave the colorful layout and pre-written inspirational quotes that greet me whenever I need to jot something down.
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The Crazy Ex-Girlfriend star appeared onstage with black-ish lead Anthony Anderson to present best actress in a limited series and the two actors engaged in some pre-written banter designed to be uncomfortable.
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Within moments of that announcement, special interest groups raced to be the first to oppose him, including one organization that didn't even bother to fill in the judge's name on its pre-written press release.
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Instead, hosts can use these "message templates" to create pre-written responses to questions, like requests for directions, or those about the check-in and checkout times, requests for the Wi-Fi password, and more.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British companies are preparing for the possibility that the country will vote to leave the European Union with extra funds, pre-written statements and plans for late-night vigils by teams of consultants.
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Google Assistant expresses sympathy, asks you for more information about what symptoms you're experiencing (through pre-written prompts), gives advice for how to treat symptoms, and ultimately advises you get in touch with a doctor.
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For me, what's most interesting about his events is the q-and-a time with voters: He often takes five to seven questions from the crowd or pulled from a fishbowl of pre-written queries.
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Several times the group directed the would-be protesters to simply parrot pre-written talking points, many drafted by "our friends" at The Heritage Foundation, the Twitter account of which students were also advised to follow.
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The majority of us spend the magical evening at home, watching our favorite stars arrive at the awards, already looking flawless and ready to read pre-written lines from a teleprompter or perform heavily-practiced routines.
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Today's autopilots cannot be trained, says Mr Baomar, because they are "hard coded" programs in which a limited number of situations activate well-defined, pre-written coping strategies—to maintain a certain speed or altitude, say.
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If that kind of logic can perpetuate itself on a show that's pre-written and approved ahead of time, it's easy to see how easy it may be for improv performers to make missteps on stage.
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Damien: We had some elements of the story pre-written and it wasn't long before we had a draft that, if Cardinal Pell had been charged in the United States, we would have immediately published online.
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Instead, he pitched Amper as a fast, affordable and royalty-free way to create the music for more "functional" projects (like commercials a or short online videos), where most companies would currently use pre-written stock music.
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He worked the phones to placate angry Republicans and urged Mr. Trump to deliver a pre-written, unequivocally pro-Israel speech in front of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the influential lobbying group known as Aipac.
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In 1787, Wolfgang Mozart published a guide to a "musical dice game" in which players roll a die several times and string together pre-written bits of music that are associated with each of the die's six faces.
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She was independent, beautiful, and obviously untraditional in her approach to love and dating in a world where the script has been pre-written for Black women to be strategic and tunnel visioned on their path to marriage.
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While support for the Google Assistant is probably the marquee feature of Allo, its use of smart replies — that is, the canned, pre-written responses you may already be familiar with from Google Inbox — is also very interesting.
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To emphasize that lawmakers were forcing his hand, Mr. Johnson's office said the letter he had sent to the European Union was actually nothing more than a photocopy of a letter that Parliament had pre-written for him.
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The Deseret News in the senator's home state accidentally published a pre-written op-ed from Hatch describing the meeting in past tense and saying how it didn't change his mind on acting on the nomination this year.
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Those are pre-written comments drafted by groups on both sides of the debate, including Fight for the Future, Demand Progress and Free Press, three liberal-leaning groups that rallied web users in defense of net neutrality this summer.
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Sam Raimi dodged a bullet by going with the pre-written values of the goofy '50s and early '60s Spider-Man—a geek juggling, girl-next-door seeking, high-school-going geek, headed by the fraudulently adorable Tobey Maguire.
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They may begin with pre-written policy points, but will inevitably swerve into talk of windmills, dip into jocular opinions on light bulbs, corkscrew into savage commentary on immigration, then free-fall into musings on news of the day.
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How it works: Through a relational organizing app, a campaign can ask a supporter to send tailored pre-written text messages to their friends, using information the campaign has already collected and fitted to their preferences, the FT reports.
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" Translation: "This is, in context, actually a total non-sequitur, but it doesn't matter—I needed to get this transparently pre-written line out there, so it can get replayed a few hundred times in the next 24 hours.
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In a March appearance before the large pro-Israel lobby the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Trump delivered a pre-written speech designed to show himself as a strong supporter of Israel -- deviating his typical freewheeling, off-the-cuff style.
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Members of Mueller's team have reportedly grumbled to associates that Barr's brief summary omitted damaging information contained in the full report, and that he opted to ignore pre-written summaries penned by the investigators that had been intended for quick release.
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In fact, according to the just-released copy of his pre-written testimony, Comey plans to describe a series of interactions with the president in which Comey says the president just to get him to lay off the Flynn investigation.
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A parade of liberal advocacy organizations sent out pre-written statements promising to challenge any such declaration in court as "an outrageous abuse of power" by an "unstable and increasingly autocratic" president, as one of the groups, Public Citizen, put it.
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I did notice though that the app's pre-written requests, under the "ask" tab of the app, for things like pets and children did spit back incorrect results, where the tops of people's heads or shoulders were registering as animals or toddlers.
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At the start, the film's producers, Jennifer Blei Stockman, Debi Wisch and Carla Solomon, showed clips from the film and then introduced each of the panelists who, prompted by Deitch's pre-written questions attempted to deal with issues raised in the film.
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An author of a no-longer-available-online Forbes story that called Epstein "one of the largest backers of cutting edge science" in 2013 later admitted he was paid $600 to post the pre-written article under his byline, The Times reported.
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But instead of pledging her undying love to star Kacey Musgraves with pre-written jumbo cards, Jenner asks the country pop star to take her spot in all things Kardashian Christmas (or, "Kris-mas," as Jenner jokes about her mom, Kris Jenner).
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In a real emergency, a FEMA official using a device "very similar to a laptop computer" will receive information from multiple federal agencies and the White House, and select one of several pre-written messages and update it to fit the circumstances.
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Yet more than 90 percent of the record-breaking 21 million comments received by the Federal Communications Commission — from both sides of the debate — are essentially pre-written form letters, while millions are otherwise suspicious in origin, according to a new report released Tuesday.
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There are all of the pre-written embargo bits about big titles and high-profile indies, there are the trend pieces and, of course, there's the traditional ennui-laden "who is this event even for" post that accompanies any industry event that achieves critical mass.
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Amper co-founder and CEO Drew Silverstein, a film composer, envisioned the product as a solution for creating affordable, royalty-free audio for projects such as news reports, wedding videos, and sports highlight reels, whereas an alternative option would be using pre-written stock music.
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President Donald Trump's behavior can be so erratic that most top administration officials have pre-written resignation letters ready to submit, an anonymous author claiming to be a senior official in the Trump administration says in a book scheduled to be published this month.
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While both sides are honing their arguments, the commission this week notified some 25 landowners along the pipeline's proposed route that it would exclude some of their pre-written testimony against the line, including arguments that there is a limited market need for it.
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How Yemen's civil war went cyber Joe Uchill reports on how Houthi rebels in Yemen are using social media in an effort to win a civil war: The campaigns use a "Twitter board" — essentially a massive collection of pre-written tweets focusing on a topic of the day.
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The team behind my demo had asked me to provide pre-written questions for my interview with Sophia, a request that I ignored for fear that it would result in pre-programmed answers from a machine that was supposed to interact with humans naturally and in real time.
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Washington (CNN)The Senate intelligence committee hearing of former FBI Director James Comey was already going to be a blockbuster before it even started -- with Comey stating in pre-written testimony Wednesday that President Donald Trump urged him to drop his investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
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So the casual, scattergun, post-adolescent mumble of the 2006 interview has turned into a style of delivery far more lyrical, carefully articulated, and slow-paced, with a touch of faux "ceremony" about it, as befits a speech that seems semi-humorous and at least partly pre-written.
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And Battle for the Net collected its roughly 2400 million comments by midnight Pacific Time through its own website, using a pre-written note to the FCC that touted the need for rules that prevent internet providers like AT&T and Verizon from blocking or slowing down web traffic.
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The smiling image reflected a drastic change in tone from Mr. Hariri's last trip to the Saudi capital, when he was summoned to the royal offices, stripped of his cellphones and separated from most of his bodyguards before being given a pre-written resignation speech to read on Saudi television.
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" Similarly, he suggested that while many audio engineers are still "down in the weeds writing code," they can take advantage of Audio Weaver's graphical interface to piece everything together, as well as the company's "hundreds of different modules — pre-written, pre-tested, pre-optimized functions to build up your system.
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In pre-written testimony, Dorsey—slated to appear before the House Energy & Commerce Committee on Wednesday—asserts it is a "foundational fact" that Twitter does not make decisions based on political ideology, but instead on what best serves the platform's "health," which Twitter defines as internal efforts to combat malicious activity across the service.
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Ross: Well, first, it means that Donald Trump so dislikes Jeff Sessions that he was constrained from firing him only by Republicans who worried about how it would look before the midterms — and probably always planned to jettison him immediately afterward, win or lose, which is why that Sessions letter was presumably pre-written.
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On Tuesday, students at the New Jersey school received an email from Rabbi David Sher, the school's Israel education and advocacy director, encouraging kids who "believe that the president made the right decision" on recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital last month to sign a pre-written letter and send it off to the White House.
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Photo: APGlenn Haab, the father of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School junior and mass shooting survivor Colton Haab, has admitted that he altered words in an email sent by a CNN producer, ultimately producing the illusion the news network had demanded his son only ask their pre-written questions at a televised forum on guns last week.
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Many of the photos of the event online show students holding signs with simplistic slogans pre-written by the Tea Party group, such as, "Gun control only stops good guys from getting guns," and "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety"—a quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin that was written to argue the finer points of a tax dispute.
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" Miranda, on stage to accept his award for Best Original Score, read a pre-written sonnet in which he noted that "senseless acts of tragedy remind us that nothing here is promised" and "we live through times when hate and fear seem stronger," before noting that "love lasts longer—and love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love…[and] cannot be killed, or swept aside.
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