premeditate
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Mayfield wouldn’t say what he’ll do against the Browns, adding “I’m not going to premeditate anything. Once I step inside the lines, I’m a competitor.’
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
Derek was into discovering things that you couldn’t premeditate.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2020
"At no time did I premeditate interfering with anyone," said Maragh, whose mount finished last in the field of 12.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 13, 2011
When I decide to make a movie, I don't premeditate it.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 23, 2011
Though Cowper kept a note-book for subjects, which no doubt were scarce with him, it is manifest that he did not premeditate.
From Cowper by Goldwin Smith
They believe that this was intentional and premeditated, and I think they’re going to stand by those beliefs.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026
Prosecutors argued the murders were premeditated, while her defense contended she had been suffering from postpartum psychosis and depression, and that she wasn’t properly treated or diagnosed by care providers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Last month, Justice Secretary David Lammy announced plans to raise the minimum starting sentence for murdering a current or former partner to 25 years - in line with other premeditated killings.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
The events of that night have been long a subject of heated debate in South Korea, particularly over whether the murder was premeditated.
From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026
“No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion,” Roosevelt declared, “the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.”
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
He is smart enough to possibly be given credit for premeditating this eremitic media strategy; he is also obstreperous enough simply to hate having his privacy invaded.
From Time Magazine Archive
The deadly, premeditated dullness of financial ads last week brought scornful shouts from two premeditating wits.
From Time Magazine Archive
No, say the four defense psychologists and psychiatrists who have examined Sirhan; as a paranoid schizophrenic, Sirhan was, in effect, incapable of fully premeditating his deed or weighing its risks.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was by trusting too implicitly to her feelings that her ruin had been accomplished, and even in her present abandonment she considered those feelings as premeditating another treason.
From Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. by Joaquín Telesforo de Trueba y Cosío
All Peytel's insinuations against his servant had no other end than to show, in every point of Rey's conduct, the behavior of a man who was premeditating attack.
From The Paris Sketch Book by William Makepeace Thackeray
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