preemptive
Example Sentences
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However, benign credit costs could provide support, as it has over MYR900 million of preemptive provisions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026
Rescue work was suspended and preemptive evacuations began Saturday as Typhoon Fung-wong bore down on the Philippines, days after another storm killed at least 204 people.
From Barron's • Nov. 8, 2025
“But the preemptive strike in the whole thing was Mike and the walk, which was huge. He set the whole table for us.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2025
Because they roamed under the ocean’s surface, the subs were also undetectable and, therefore, less vulnerable than fixed land-based missiles to an enemy preemptive attack.
From Slate • Sep. 16, 2025
The next morning, as another thousand children between the ages of six and eighteen gathered at a church to march, Connor unleashed a furious preemptive strike.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
