premeditation

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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

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

The deadly, premeditated dullness of financial ads last week brought scornful shouts from two premeditating wits.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Thackeray, William Makepeace

He had been premeditating an escape home to his mother's house in Guestwick, and thence back to London, without making any further appearance at the Manor House.

From The Small House at Allington by Trollope, Anthony