preempting
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Indeed, the U.S. government’s health authorities currently provide no official guidance or support for preempting this disastrous domino effect.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 3, 2023
Summit on Thursday had dropped a motion for preempting county ordinances, regulations which attorney Brett Koenecke wrote “have the intended or unintended effect of hampering projects like this one.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2023
One way it does that is by preempting state-level suits against a union for helping to organize a workplace.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2023
But don’t lump it into a trend of “grief horror,” Savage pleads, preempting comparisons to the likes of Jennifer Kent’s 2014 “The Babadook.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2023
That was her way of preempting any complaints about my visit.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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