preempting

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Unlike last year’s show, the 98th Academy Awards didn’t buck expectations with a moving musical performance to kick off the telecast, preempting the usual opening sketch and host’s monologue.

From Salon • Mar. 16, 2026

CBS is giving its best effort to make the telecast successful, preempting its Sunday night stalwart “60 Minutes” so the Globes can benefit from a direct audience lead-in from the late-afternoon NFL game.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2024

Indeed, the U.S. government’s health authorities currently provide no official guidance or support for preempting this disastrous domino effect.

From Scientific American • Oct. 3, 2023

Summit on Thursday had dropped a motion for preempting county ordinances, regulations which attorney Brett Koenecke wrote “have the intended or unintended effect of hampering projects like this one.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 11, 2023

She had nearly missed the midmorning update, and now it looks like the news will be preempting more and more programming—which means she won’t be going home anytime soon.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman