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premeditate

[pri-med-i-tayt] / prɪˈmɛd ɪˌteɪt /


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Mayfield wouldn’t say what he’ll do against the Browns, adding “I’m not going to premeditate anything. Once I step inside the lines, I’m a competitor.’

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2022

Derek was into discovering things that you couldn’t premeditate.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2020

"At no time did I premeditate interfering with anyone," said Maragh, whose mount finished last in the field of 12.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 13, 2011

When I decide to make a movie, I don't premeditate it.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 23, 2011

Besides, you must be very careful that the jest should seem to be extempore, taken from some present question or merry humor; not far-fetched, as if premeditate and designed.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

The prosecution’s argument is simpler and meaner, almost reminiscent of Steinbeck: Clancy’s actions were premeditated, her way of escaping a life she didn’t want anymore.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

They believe that this was intentional and premeditated, and I think they’re going to stand by those beliefs.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026

“I thought he swung the bat pretty well. So, it’s a premeditated day off today. He’ll be back in there tomorrow, but I guess no news is good news.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

City Mayor Massimo Mezzeti added that it would be "even more serious" if it turned out to be a premeditated attack.

From BBC ● May 16, 2026

I started off fast from the on-guard line, accelerating to a fast lunge around Brandon’s premeditated parry.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

He is smart enough to possibly be given credit for premeditating this eremitic media strategy; he is also obstreperous enough simply to hate having his privacy invaded.

From Time Magazine Archive

No, say the four defense psychologists and psychiatrists who have examined Sirhan; as a paranoid schizophrenic, Sirhan was, in effect, incapable of fully premeditating his deed or weighing its risks.

From Time Magazine Archive

The deadly, premeditated dullness of financial ads last week brought scornful shouts from two premeditating wits.

From Time Magazine Archive

During these three terrible hours, Louis Bonaparte carried out what he had been premeditating, and completed his work.

From The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

The idea of any snake wilfully and maliciously premeditating an attack upon a man is quite out of the question, unless it has been either teased or excited by a dog when hunting.

From Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 by Sir Samuel White Baker


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