Example sentences for: pre-emptively

How can you use “pre-emptively” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The rest of the 75 page section contains a mix of strong writers being stifled (or perhaps pre-emptively stifling themselves) and weak ones being given too much space to say too little.

  • He reveals that White House "attack dogs" have, in the past, pre-emptively leaked damaging stories in hopes of framing the opposition.

  • Northern Borneo was quickly overrun, but the oil fields of Miri and Brunei were pre-emptively sabotaged by the British and Dutch.

  • The WP says another decidedly less contrite tack under consideration, also reported inside by the NYT , is for the White House to get a courtesy early copy of the Starr report and then pre-emptively issue its own report.

  • Weak commodity demand and a strong dollar are staving off inflation, but the Fed should pre-emptively raise interest rates before the bubble bursts.


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