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
I might perhaps have agreed to your wishes,” answered Lady Harriet, “particularly as Laura seems sincerely sorry, and did not premeditate her disobedience; but she actually has not a tolerable frock to appear in now!”
From Holiday House A Series of Tales by Sinclair, Catherine
It was a batter clearly playing to his strengths, even if he insists it was not premeditated.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 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
For the actor, Padilha says, choosing what he wants to do is always instinctual, never premeditated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 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
It was premeditated, it was planned, it was thought out.
From "Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago" by LeAlan Jones
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
You will see that we have anticipated his impromptu observations by carefully premeditating our impromptu reply.
From Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z by Various
In that case your husband's position is entirely different—he is no longer a criminal premeditating a crime; and the sentence pronounced against him may be quite a light one.
From Woman on Her Own, False Gods and The Red Robe Three Plays By Brieux by Miall, Bernard
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