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The government launched a preemptive strike against the enemy to prevent an imminent attack.preemptive = preventive
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She preempted his expected betrayal by immediately telling everyone what happened in her own words.preempted = prevented
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The company took preemptive measures to prevent a data breach by implementing stronger security protocols.preemptive = preventive
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He broke up with me last week because he'd decided there was something fundamentally incompatible about us deep down and that we'd only get hurt more if we played it out. He called it preemptive dumping. (source)preemptive = done before something else happens to prevent it from happening
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I've been learning about preemptive strategies. (source)preemptive = done before something undesired happens to prevent it from happening
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Again, I'd made the perfect preemptory strike. (source)preemptory = preventing an anticipated situation or occurrence
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Was it because of the urgency of the situation, allowing me to approach without preemptive nerves?† (source)
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The Count turned to Osip as if he were about to introduce him, but Osip preempted.† (source)
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Do you three know what the word 'preempt' means?† (source)
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Her command had been regal, preemptory—uttered in a tone and manner he had found completely irresistible.† (source)
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Preemptively, you conclude, as I would, that Rudy died that very same day, of hypothermia.† (source)
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"As the Red force commander, I'm sitting there and I realize that Blue Team had said that they were going to adopt a strategy of preemption," Van Riper says.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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In Identity Disorder there is a similar clinical picture, but Borderline Personality...preempts the diagnosis ...if the disturbance is sufficiently pervasive and ...it is unlikely that it will be limited to a developmental stage.† (source)
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So maybe you have this premonition that there is something fundamentally incompatible and you're preempting the preemption. (source)preempting = doing something that prevents something else from happening
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If Aunt March had begged Meg to accept John Brooke, she would probably have declared she couldn't think of it, but as she was preemptorily ordered not to like him, she immediately made up her mind that she would.† (source)
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Either scenario explains how the Church might be motivated to launch a preemptive attack against the Priory.† (source)
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