"preconstructed" meaning in English

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          "text": "The preconstructed melodies often caught more than such melodies usually catch, their fake textures were full of small surprises, and most of all their lyrics actually justified their postmodern settings by deconstructing instead of just ridiculing the pop form in which they were set.",
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          "text": "There is, then, a psycholinguistic explanation for the prevalence of preconstructed and semi-preconstructed phrases in language.",
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          "ref": "2004, Teaching Secondary Mathematics with ICT, →ISBN, page 90:",
          "text": "There is growing interest in the use of preconstructed files (see Gawlick, 2002 for further discussion), and there are increasingly sophisticated files available.",
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        "Constructed in advance."
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