How to Use preemptive in a Sentence

preemptive

adjective

• The country took preemptive action against the perceived enemy.
• Those two strikes were part of five preemptive strikes the U.S. took over the course of five days last week.
  — Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2024
• There was rage in there, for sure, a touch of preemptive regret.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2023
• Mitchell didn’t have to wait until 2023 to write a preemptive last-word on the subject.
  — Jenn Pelly, Pitchfork, 4 Oct. 2023
• And preemptive kudos for the next time — because there will be a next time.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 7 Nov. 2022
• In today’s deal, East bid three spades (preemptive) with this hand.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2024
• Britain’s preemptive response destroyed most of Denmark’s merchant fleet, one of the largest in the world.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2023
• The closer Iran gets to a bomb, the more the risks of war in the region will rise—and mainly via a potential preemptive attack by Israel.
  — Michael A. Cohen, The New Republic, 25 Jan. 2022
• But the Texas law was designed to avoid preemptive legal review.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2021
• Perhaps most troubling is that all this has led to a wave of preemptive self-censoring.
  — Karen Chu, National Review, 18 Feb. 2022
• And if the goal of the day is to bring lovers together, not to test to see if somebody loves you, there’s nothing wrong with having a preemptive dialogue.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 9 Feb. 2022
• Knocked off their feet by your preemptive move, the competition should be struggling to keep up in your customers’ minds.
  — Jim Heininger, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2021
• That’s exactly why Democrats and the broad left should launch a preemptive strike against his lionization.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 10 Apr. 2023
• Now, Ball said, businesses don’t need to make any preemptive moves with their deposits at other banks.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2023
• The new strategy does not allow for preemptive strikes.
  — Arkansas Online, 17 Dec. 2022
• But Nevada’s brochure clearly intends to make a preemptive case.
  — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 6 Apr. 2022
• That kind of preemptive measure is a key to fighting cybercrime.
  — Gopi Sirineni, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
• Transportation —There will be more scrutiny of AVs in wake of Cruise’s failure—and more preemptive bans as the public sees them as unsafe.
  — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2023
• His high polling numbers are likely indicative of a preemptive shift away from the democratic backsliding that has been seen in Guatemala over the last few years.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 20 Aug. 2023
• Will the preemptive move by U.S. News quell the backlash, or is an anti-ranking movement going to gain momentum?
  — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
• Kochava, which filed a preemptive lawsuit against the FTC this month, denied the allegations.
  — Brittany Shammas, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 2022
• Wilson did stress the goal is to do enough preemptive work now, during the current drought that has slogged on for 23 years, to never come close to what happened at Owens Lake in California.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Oct. 2022
• Across the nation, preemptive legal challenges are launched by both parties.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2022
• The water dumps were mostly a preemptive measure, to ensure the fire doesn’t flare up again amid the hot and dry conditions, according to a fire department spokesman.
  — Camilo Fonseca, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2022
• Wednesday’s vote represents a preemptive plan to implement curfews and close beaches ahead of the arrival of spring break crowds.
  — Aaron Leibowitz, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2024
• Trump had been talked out of issuing preemptive pardons.
  — Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2022
• The homegrown Hyumoo-2 is key to South Korea’s preemptive and retaliatory strike strategies against the North.
  — Kim Tong-Hyung, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Oct. 2022
• The homegrown Hyumoo-2 is key to South Korea's preemptive and retaliatory strike strategies against the North.
  — Kim Tong-Hyung, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2022
• The signing is a stunning preemptive strike ahead of baseball's winter meetings, which begin Sunday in San Diego.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2022
• Your preemptive opening described your hand, more or less — long, strong spades with little defense — and your partner makes the decisions.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 28 May 2024