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Example sentences for: preempt

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

FCIC has been determined that the provisions of the rules that preempt
The WP lead says several Internet firms today will announce actions designed to preempt regulation.
preempt state and local laws to the extent such laws are inconsistent with this rule.
In one case the court told a manufacturer that there can be no monopoly on love : “No one may preempt the field with respect to marks having `love' as a portion thereof and thus exclude all others from the use of any mark composed in part of such word.”
And it could run them even more, because mandated free airtime might preempt other programming and/or non-political paid advertising.