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How to use the word preemptively in a Sentence?

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Democrats are ending this session of Congress as they started it — by advancing partisan priorities and ignoring any issue inconvenient to their political narrative, they want to gaslight Americans into believing there is no crisis on the Southern border. They want to deny the reality of a looming debt crisis, mind-trick people into believing our supply chain issues are fixed, and preemptively thwart any attempt at legitimate Congressional oversight. Rather than find areas of bipartisan consensus, Democrats are instead prioritizing President Biden’s re-election prospects. This isn’t surprising, but it is disappointing.

Kevin Seifert

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If we were to vaccinate preemptively, we would lose our animal health status as a country free of foot and mouth disease and we would lose our trade and market access.

Mark Schipp

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think it's a good thing to do, because by diming out the Russians, particularly if you can do it preemptively, then you may prevent that very thing from happening -- and it would appear, at least so far, that may be the case.

James Clapper

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is a central preset to Chinese strategy. When Lina Benabdallah look through history Lina Benabdallah preemptively shape the environment, shape the potential battlefield, so that Lina Benabdallah adversaries decide to not even come out on to the field to begin with. There's real potential for the debt to do that.

Gabriel Collins

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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