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In the process, they have galvanized most of the country into acknowledging that the worst attack on the Capitol in over a century was not a spontaneous protest that spun out of control, but a premeditated attempted coup.

From Time

With dramatic testimony, smartly edited video, and the release of new documents, lawmakers started to cast the mob riot as less of an organic event that spiraled out of control than a premeditated assault on democracy itself.

From TIme

Nor was the premeditated massacre of 38 people asphyxiated in the back of a police van.

Obama wanted to assume the moral responsibility for what were in effect premeditated government executions.

But there is also little doubt that the Obama campaign has proven far more premeditated and adept when it comes to its media buys.

“We do not have information at present that leads us to conclude that this was premeditated or preplanned,” Rice said.

Was the attack a premeditated act targeting the ambassador and carefully timed to coincide with the 11th anniversary of 9/11?

Apparently it had not been premeditated, for the parties were fighting with sticks and stones, as well as swords and fire-arms.

The hope of gaining the crown was not the result of a premeditated plan in the minds of the restless Guises.

Indeed, in the succeeding quiet and the mildness of his voice, there was almost a premeditated cunning.

Murdered under official sanction, in accordance with premeditated design.

He had premeditated the shipwreck; the proofs were the preparations discovered in the haunted house.

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On this page you'll find 37 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to premeditated, such as: calculated, conscious, deliberate, intentional, willful, and advised.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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