Sentence examples for to preempt from inspiring English sources
verb
To appropriate something (before someone else does)
CPG companies have tried to preempt increased regulation by focusing on more sustainable packaging.
The urge to preempt would dominate; whoever gets the first few weapons will coerce or preempt.
It seemed to preempt wider critical feeling about his work: unpersuaded.
I now know that there's no way to preempt anything here.
According to them, it attempts to preempt state laws that regulate chemicals.
Otherwise this is a bill that seems to preempt a problem that could happen in some cases.
It was Beyoncé who decided not to preempt the release of her album with a single, or the typical campaign.
They warned Obama, "We may, by being proactive, be blamed for causing the problems we are seeking to preempt.
MacLennan said she aired criticism publicly to preempt any accusations of bungling or wrongdoing on her part.
It simply wants to preempt the Florida Supreme Court's effort to figure out who won the election last month.
This largely symbolic motion, which passed, was designed to preempt a more extreme one planned by the separatist Bloc Québécois.
