as a premise
Example Sentences
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Yet Tesfaye has recently hinted at retiring the Weeknd as a premise.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2025
"Once you've accepted something as a premise and committed to it, you can be entirely internally consistent and reach more and more outlandish conclusions."
From Salon • Jul. 11, 2023
Other sci-fi series take climate emergency as a premise.
From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2023
A reasoner can use several instances in their experience as premises to draw a general conclusion and then use that generalization as a premise to draw a conclusion about a specific new instance.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
Ricardo makes large use of the quantity theory as a premise, but apparently feels the theory to be so self-evident that it needs little exposition or defence at his hands.
From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.
