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Under that premise, the role should go to a candidate from Latin America this time.

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

A chip built for a single model offers a weaker premise: a renter if its model is still wanted, nothing if it isn’t.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026

The seemingly ridiculous premise became a real motivator once the games started.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

“It Follows,” his breakout 2014 hit, was a buzzy million-dollar horror film with a catchy premise and sparks of ingenious production design.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

The premise of the message was that Shawn had been reborn, spiritually cleansed.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

To set up manufacturing space on a lot zoned for retail, Leong and his wife opened Ando Café on the premises.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

The person then reportedly "panicked and left the premises" after realising what had happened, according to the Ofcom statement.

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026

One thing to note: There are no TVs on the premises.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

It stopped making bikes in the city decades ago, and in 2024 it vacated its headquarters on Church Street in Eastwood to move to new premises less than a mile away.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

There was no mention of two suspicious peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on the premises, or a flashlight, or a silver cross on a chain.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin

Trademarks, unlike copyrights or patents, are intellectual property that are not premised on creating value for whoever registers them; they’re about protecting consumers.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026

Expectations of the proliferation of AI across industries and in consumer applications were premised on a massive build-out of the data centers needed to support the technology.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

The 2026 fuel subsidy calculation was premised on a global oil price of $70 per barrel, but prices have since topped $100.

From Barron's ● Mar. 31, 2026

But he’ll always have the memes, which, although premised on his past work, actually catapulted his name to a level of immortality that his filmography alone never could.

From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026

Everything that she, Baby Kochamma, had done, had been premised on one assumption.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

Feinstein, who is well known for her opposition to drones, is premising her legislation on safety concerns.

From Forbes ● Dec. 3, 2014

One of his most premising innovations was a new Secretariat for non-Christian religions; but Paul entrusted the project to a Curia professional, Paolo Cardinal Marella, and almost nothing has been heard of it since.

From Time Magazine Archive

But at last she sat down and did write a letter for herself, specially premising that no one should see it.

From Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope

It is to these trials that we shall now confine ourselves; only premising certain facts necessary to the perfect understanding of the extracts which we are about to make.

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 by Lewis Gaylord Clark

It was from Hills, a firm of solicitors in Lincoln's Inn Fields, and, premising that I was a candidate for the post of doctor in the SS.

From Hurricane Island by H. B. Marriott (Henry Brereton Marriott) Watson