premeditate
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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
Vagrancy is almost unknown amongst them, and if their vices are large their temptations are great; but, take them as a whole, they seldom premeditate evil.
From Windjammers and Sea Tramps by Walter Runciman
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
The events of that night have been long a subject of heated debate in South Korea, particularly over whether the murder was premeditated.
From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026
Unlike the deliberate, premeditated approach of human engineers, the natural process for generating life has no preconceived plan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
The most effective off- the-cuff speeches are premeditated, and the best premeditated speeches appear off the cuff.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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
As soon as he had gone Clara and her mother began talking over the affair, premeditating what they should do with the child.
From The Black-Sealed Letter Or, The Misfortunes of a Canadian Cockney. by Andrew Learmont Spedon
Thus while his love took its very origin from his belief of her nobility, he was premeditating the means of having her prove to him that this did not exist.
From The Choir Invisible by James Lane Allen
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