Example Sentences

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Before purchasing any furniture be sure to preplan by following these design tips:

From Seattle Times • Dec. 28, 2023

“For the record, we did not ever preplan any attack or breach of the Capitol building. It was just a protest.”

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2023

“It was really important to me to have a strategy in place for myself, but I knew I couldn’t preplan how alliances were going to go because you can’t control other people,” he says.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 17, 2021

The title borrows from a practice of prudence in an activity known for risk — mountain climbers preplan their time to turn around and head back down, whether or not they’ve bagged the peak.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 11, 2019

“But I won’t drive myself nuts trying to preplan what people are going to say, what they’re going to think, even though it terrifies me — I just have to put my energy into finishing.”

From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2018