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Example sentences for: pre-emptive

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(everything blown away) The other half take pre-emptive action: Slick Rick recorded his last album while serving time for attempted murder; Snoop Doggy Dogg was acquitted on technical grounds.
In his remarks to the Senate, Greenspan spoke of the benefits of "pre-emptive" action, i.e., moving against inflation before it actually develops.
Indiana has composed not just an autopsy of Los Angeles trial spectacles but also a satire-before-the-fact of Dunne's novel--possibly the first such pre-emptive strike in literary history.
The "pre-emptive rave" to which I referred was by columnist Frank Rich; it came more than a week before the film opened.
Tim Russert grills him on the issues: Trump advocates a pre-emptive strike on North Korean nuclear facilities and declares nuclear proliferation his highest priority.