Appropriates

• Denies air to?
• Makes a shutout bid
• Bumps, on the air
• Anticipates Forster (initially) to be included in homework, and Eliot similarly
• Replaces in the TV lineup
• Interrupts, as a broadcast
• Interrupts, as a TV broadcast
• Seizes before someone else can

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vb. (en-third-person singular of: preempt )