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Turner and Barbaro have charm up the wazoo, and Gluck does a fair amount of key-jangling to distract from the nagging issues of the premise itself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

"We're famously a wet country but there's been a whole raft of really positive research coming out of the States that's basically working on the premise that water doesn't burn," he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

That premise doesn’t come with a carve-out for whichever branch of government happens to be asking for the redesign.

From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026

The premise doesn’t hold, said Michael Gapen, chief U.S. economist at Morgan Stanley.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

Without equality, eugenics would inevitably falter on the false premise that social ills, such as vagrancy, pauperism, deviance, alcoholism, and feeblemindedness were genetic ills—while, in fact, they merely reflected inequality.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

North Hertfordshire Council has granted SJM Concerts a premises licence for Knebworth House, which came into effect on Saturday and will remain in place indefinitely.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Prosecutors said Bush ran a "shambolic and chaotic" operation at the Hessle Road premises and his "appalling" offending had caused "extreme emotional pain, anguish and upset".

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

County officials did not remove any dogs from the premises but instead served the facility with an order to treat three dogs with veterinary care.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

He began by throwing out the rubble his father’s men had left and cleaning up his premises, breathing rhythmically to empty his insides of any trace of anger and to purify his spirit.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

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

However, “there is still not enough impetus for trades premised on the BOJ being behind the curve, so the JGB market will likely lack clear direction,” the senior Japan rates strategist says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

Yoder, the court premised its decision to allow Amish parents to remove older children from school on expert testimony showing that the decision caused no harm “to the physical or mental health of the child.”

From Slate ● Mar. 12, 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

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 Watson, H. B. Marriott (Henry Brereton Marriott)

Mr. Stevens then addressed the House, premising that in his state of health a few words must suffice.

From History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by Barnes, William Horatio

This question, premising that the phrase ‘overwhelming greatness’ contains important implications which have yet to be considered, I can only answer like the last.

From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Bradley, Andrew Cecil