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Appropriate.

Answer: PREEMPT - 7 letters

The crossword clue "Appropriate." is answered by PREEMPT, a 7-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 1987; first recorded in 1948. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.

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PREEMPT

PREEMPT

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7Times used
7Distinct years
1987Most recent year
1Publications

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 1987; first recorded in 1948. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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