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
But defense attorney Tom Jacquinot said in his opening statement that the evidence will show Vrba did not premeditate to kill Steinfeld, who was his friend.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2020
Derek was into discovering things that you couldn’t premeditate.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2020
When I decide to make a movie, I don't premeditate it.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 23, 2011
Does not Shakspeare himself sometimes premeditate the sheerest bombast!
From Life of Robert Burns by Thomas Carlyle
Prosecutors argued the murders were premeditated, while her defense contended she had been suffering from postpartum psychosis and depression, and that she wasn’t properly treated or diagnosed by care providers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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
He said the act was premeditated and added two days to the requested sentence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2025
Although Duke Béla's assassination in November 1272 appears to have been partly or wholly premeditated, the manner of the killing indicates that it was not carried out calmly.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2025
For me, France was never a specific, premeditated destination.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
The deadly, premeditated dullness of financial ads last week brought scornful shouts from two premeditating wits.
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
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
They spoke together, without premeditating what they said.
From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by
On this island the castle was erected; and the basin was flooded from a little stream which the premeditating builder had previously diverted and dammed.
From Hastings and Neighbourhood by Walter Higgins
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