premises
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Most of us are so familiar with this revolution’s sour consequences that we hardly bother to question its premises anymore.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
This is especially true now that the kind of storage facilities that 30 years ago were mom and pop operations, with mom and pop living on the premises, are managed remotely by large corporations.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
"We find a lot of people come here and don't even leave the premises" Johnson said.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
This "surrender principle" acts as a strict cap on the number of premises which can sell alcohol.
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026
That prevented the laborers from coming to work, and left vast quantities of mangoes, bananas, pineapple, garlic and ginger rotting slowly on the premises of Paradise Pickles.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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