as a premise
Example Sentences
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Yet Tesfaye has recently hinted at retiring the Weeknd as a premise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2025
"Once you've accepted something as a premise and committed to it, you can be entirely internally consistent and reach more and more outlandish conclusions."
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2023
Other sci-fi series take climate emergency as a premise.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2023
Spoiler alert: internal monologues are common, court play is staged and choreographed and scripts often use the complexities of tennis as a premise to explore aspects of character.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2022
An argument that uses as a premise such a cause may predicate its effect as a conclusion with absolute certainty.
From English: Composition and Literature by Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)
