preempting

Venus is like an angel on your shoulder, preempting any rash moves.

“I was there,” he wrote on his blog, preempting the next hit.

She stepped through her curtain and said gaily: "You're preempting my privilege, Philip."

He called up both women, alleging a visit to strike headquarters to one, and preempting the other for the afternoon.

I felt like going into the Northwest and preempting a homestead.