Wiktionary
pre-empting
vb. (present participle of pre-empt English)
Usage examples of "pre-empting".
Then, seeing what it meant, he looked across at his lieutenant, pre-empting him, stopping him from pressing the general alarm that would wake the whole palace.
From his perspective, the UN DISA people merely aped his employer’s actions on a smaller scale—in hope of pre-empting them.
For quite apart from Thikkoul's predictions - even despite them, anticipating or pre-empting them - he had after all travelled the length of the known world in order to do just that.
Saul opened his mouth to speak, but King Rat's voice emerged from the darkness, pre-empting him.