NOUN
- a surprise attack that is launched in order to prevent the enemy from doing it to you
How To Use pre-emptive strike In A Sentence
- Luckily, I've anticipated and manage a pre-emptive strike while he's still taking in the last statement.
- They essentially amounted to a crude pre-emptive strike designed to forestall any leadership challenge and the natural targets were those with whom he has crossed swords in the past.
- His speech was a pre-emptive strike designed to prevent opponents from exploiting the war issue.
- The resulting fear of attack will encourage the neighbours to pre-emptive strikes, which will in turn tempt the first group to strike against them and so on. Times, Sunday Times
- Hitting him was more of a pre-emptive strike than anything. Times, Sunday Times
- Among the new weapons under consideration are low-level radiation weapons specifically designed for pre-emptive strikes.
- They essentially amounted to a crude pre-emptive strike designed to forestall any leadership challenge and the natural targets were those with whom he has crossed swords in the past.
- Iran is seen as an existential threat, and that has raised speculation that Israel might launch a pre-emptive strike on Iranian nuclear facilities.
- Armed and ready for criticism, he launches a pre-emptive strike. Times, Sunday Times
- On mature consideration though, perhaps those black puddings of theirs count as weapons of mass destruction and merit a pre-emptive strike.
