proposition

That’s a very different proposition for American investors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

Warren Buffett has spent decades making essentially the same wager, stating numerous times that betting against America is a losing proposition.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 1, 2026

The proposition backed by Kolodin does not specify how mail-in voters should prove their identity, but leaves the Republican-controlled legislature to devise the system at a later date.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

The proposition would exempt Pacific Palisades homeowners from paying the tax, regardless of whether they lived at the property or not.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

On behalf of IOI, I wish to make you a highly lucrative business proposition, the exact details of which we can discuss in a private chatlink session.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

The measure had odds stacked against it, with two other propositions on the ballot that would have effectively reversed it, even if it passed.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

The propositions unlock billions in bond dollars to build housing and help residents buy homes in a state where the median price is nearly $900,000, according to recent data.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

Every so often, refineries shut down for months to work on “turnarounds” — top-to-bottom refurbishment and replacement cycles due to safety and other regulations — which are expensive propositions.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

"You can decompose a thought into subcomponents, like little atoms of logical propositions, and you can combine them in a hierarchical manner to make more complex structured rules, very akin to language."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

Rebutting those propositions one by one is the task of the speech that follows.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

Tennessee propositioned Paramount Skydance, hoping to tempt it to become the next company to leave California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026

During the trial against her husband and his half-brother, Carolyn Bryant took the stand and testified that Till had grabbed her hand and propositioned her.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2025

Anyone with a cellphone has been propositioned at least once by this type of arrangement: the recruiter with a great offer to earn extra money, and with very little required of you.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2025

However, just yesterday the concept of caviar as a casual snack was propositioned yet again — and this time by Pringles.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2023

During his on-court interview, the second-seeded Italian was propositioned from someone in the crowd.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 18, 2022

But when Bobbie takes advantage of Jamie’s jitters to suggest that he marry her instead of Paul, she doesn’t seem needy or wolfish, as Bobby did when propositioning Amy; she seems foolish and disrespectful.

From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2021

The company investigated and found that Matthews’s conduct was inappropriate and offensive, though it concluded that he wasn’t propositioning the woman, according to reports from the Daily Caller eventually confirmed by the network.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2020

“There is no one — man, woman, founder, V.C., the most aggressive feminist, no one — who would have thought a male V.C. would get fired for propositioning a woman. It’s just a radical change.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2017

In 1975, Fisher made a brief but memorable film debut propositioning Warren Beatty in the satire Shampoo, before landing her big break on Star Wars, where she sported a hairstyle she described as “hairy earphones”.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 27, 2016

She observes protocol with a pratfall, practices diplomacy by outright propositioning.

From Time Magazine Archive