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单词 pre-empted
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pre-ˈempted
pre-ˈempted adj.
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1862 J. S. Hittell Mining Pacific States N. Amer. xi. 196 A ‘preëmpted claim’, to mean one in immediate vicinity of paying diggings.
1880 Scribner's Monthly May 102 Rival missionary boards over-run pre-empted ground and obliterate the boundaries of Christian comity.
1906 U. Sinclair Jungle xxi. 242 The business of carrying satchels for railroad passengers was a preëmpted one—whenever he essayed it, eight or ten men and boys would fall upon him and force him to run for his life.
1994 Proscenium Fall 16 The arts community was..reeling from the pre-empted merger of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Canada Council, cut off at the pass by the Senate.
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