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What does pre-empting mean?

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Verb
  1. present participle of pre-empt
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Werden also said that the station will be pre-empting or running special editions of their regular programming in favour of women centred content.
In pre-empting the terrorist are we really dealing with asymmetry, or is something else at work?
The former prime minister appears to be jumping the gun, pre-empting the legal process that is just beginning to dig deeper.
Badal further said, the men in uniform led by the Punjab Police chief had succeeded in limiting the magnitude of the damage and pre-empting a colossal tragedy.
Whether that's pre-empting something to come is another thing but up to now there's been no contact.
In a way, the organisers were pre-empting any possible vacillation in the minds of children and prevent them from becoming child workers.

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