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premise
noun as in hypothesis, argument
Strongest matches
assertion, assumption, basis, ground, presumption, proposition, thesis
Strong matches
evidence, posit, postulate, postulation, presupposition, proof, supposition
Weak match
Example Sentences
The premise is that you can “remember” a vacation you never took.
The Graham company based “En Messe” on a flimsy premise, the discovery of a page or two of sketches that Bernstein made for a proposed score he meant to write for Graham in 1988.
Some advisers do not accept the premise that the wealth-preservation phase is simpler than all those decades of wealth accumulation.
And then a dose of tax cuts—above all on the stamp duty charged on house purchases, but also on a form of premises tax paid by businesses, among others.
Mathis renamed the church the Nashville Church of Christ in 2018 and claimed to have launched an online ministry, but didn’t hold church services on the premises.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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