- past participle of predispose.
- past tense form of predispose.
predisposed
Example Sentences
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"This situation could lead to many of the students ending up in a vulnerable situation and predisposed to being further exploited financially or otherwise," Juho Sillanpää, who is leading the investigation, told the BBC.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
I have no predisposed notion on what goes into the inspection report.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025
"Exosomes are used to communicate with and activate surrounding cells, and we have now identified a defect in both the production and the quality of exosomes in cells that we know are predisposed to Alzheimer's."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 2025
Wojcicki said inquiries poured into 23andMe in 2015 after actor Angelina Jolie disclosed that she’d undergone a precautionary double mastectomy upon learning she carried a gene that predisposed her to breast cancer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2025
A lot of people will claim to be both, but those people miss the point entirely: You are predisposed to either one fate or the other.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
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