premise
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But as Rob Thummel, a senior portfolio manager at Tortoise Capital, noted, the original premise of the tech boom hasn’t changed.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
There was only an Apple executive laying out the quaint premise: “We created Apple Sports to give sports fans what they want — an app that delivers incredibly fast access to scores and stats.”
From Slate • Jun. 10, 2026
The six-part series, written by Sophie Goodhart and co-starring Jemaine Clement, begins with a friendship-shattering premise.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
“There’s nothing wrong with wanting men” begins with the iffy premise that extremely online discourse drives what people care about offline.
From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026
He claimed to have witnessed the incident with his own eyes, and I remember how upset he became one morning when Mitchell Sanders challenged him on its basic premise.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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