Thesaurus results for PREEMPTED

preempted

verb

past tense of preempt

as in seized

to take or make use of under a guise of authority but without actual right the thoughtless teenagers had preempted front-row seats that were reserved for the guests of honor

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Recent Examples of preempted The states have a role to play, and that is the gold standard of that regulation, and we shouldn’t be preempted by federal regulation. —

Morgan Chalfant, semafor.com, 27 Mar. 2026 On Friday, jurors preempted their pizza lunch break to ask Kuhl whether all of them should weigh in on damages, or only those who’d agreed on liability. —

Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2026 The ordinance in Fishers, which has been preempted by state lawmakers, currently limits the number of rental homes to 10% per subdivision. —

Jake Allen, IndyStar, 23 Mar. 2026 Counties didn’t get routine hearings before the oil and gas commission and Colorado courts ruled that state laws preempted local ordinances. —

Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 18 Mar. 2026 One of the best defenses in civil litigation is that the plaintiff has pleaded laws that are preempted by other laws. —

Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 26 Feb. 2026 The states continue to have the power to regulate greenhouse gases, not from motor vehicles, that's preempted, but in stationary sources, lots of other things, states still have the power, and many states are using that power to regulate their emissions and to encourage more renewable energy. —

Dana Taylor, USA Today, 18 Feb. 2026 Mississippi officials have argued that the state law is not preempted, while the RNC has urged the high court to strike down the Magnolia State’s law, along with similar ones in other states, as unlawful. —

Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 30 Jan. 2026 Before even jumping into questions during Wednesday’s conference, Cardman preempted any probing questions. —

Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 22 Jan. 2026

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The department shared photos of what their officers seized, which included a gun and a baby bottle authorities say was filled with the drug mixture known as lean.

— Dan Raby, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2026
In March, Hungarian counterterrorism authorities seized two trucks, owned by a Ukrainian bank, that were passing through the country on a routine cash-transport run from Vienna.

— Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2026