Wiktionary
pre-emptively
a. (alternative spelling of preemptively English)
Usage examples of "pre-emptively".
If Antonia had looked, she would have seen not one bird flying in the sky, and if she had gone down to the sea, she would have seen flatfish swimming near the surface, and the other fish leaping as if they now wished to be birds and to swim in air, whilst many others pre-emptively turned turtle, and died.