preemption
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Over the six days between the show’s preemption and its return, celebrities and influencers posted instructions on how to cancel subscriptions to Disney’s streaming services.
From Salon • Sep. 26, 2025
Because they are able to destroy enemy missile silos, and at the same time are vulnerable to an attack by the same enemy, their very existence creates incentives for preemption in a crisis.
From Slate • Sep. 16, 2025
“EPA granted preemption waivers for California to tackle local problems like smog in the Los Angeles basin, where the pollution was both generated by and felt by Californians,” the fuel producers said in their appeal.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2024
When I first started seriously considering preemption in 2021, I wrote that “it now poses one of the most serious threats to anything but the most moderate of criminal legal system reforms.”
From Slate • Feb. 22, 2024
Thereafter all settlement and preemption rights ceased and the further distribution of land in Kentucky was by means of treasury warrants.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 by Various
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U.S. Government - Middle School and High School
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