premise
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“There’s a premise underlying all of this that you can control AI by controlling the biggest LLMs,” Goertzel told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
That’s the premise of Chuck Klosterman’s “Rock*,” an alternate history of popular music from 1967 to well into this century, built on a single historical accident.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Bolton criticised Letby's barrister, Mark McDonald, after he described the inquiry as having been based on a "false premise" of Letby's guilt.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
“I reject the premise that you have to choose between clean air and abundant energy,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
The hidden premise of the lawyer’s argument is that if the audience watches the door, they believe it possible that the woman is alive.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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A server built around the same four processors costs about $75,500 to put on your own premises.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
He pointed out cracks in the premises that he said were caused by underground blasting.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
Exercises often pushed students into strange scenarios or premises: embodying an object, exploring a feeling or inhabiting a logic to find more instinctive, present performances.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
It is unclear when the premises will reopen.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
For the Aristotelian philosophy of nature could not be adapted to incorporate this peculiar anomaly; if there could be such a thing as a new star, then the whole system was founded on false premises.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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“This was premised on a convergence in U.S. rates with those abroad as the Fed remained on hold and other central banks caught up,” said the Morgan Stanley team.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
Trademarks, unlike copyrights or patents, are intellectual property that are not premised on creating value for whoever registers them; they’re about protecting consumers.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
Expectations of the proliferation of AI across industries and in consumer applications were premised on a massive build-out of the data centers needed to support the technology.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
But Anthropic, a company premised on model safety, wasn’t sleeping.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
In retrospect, their ignorance seems incredible—but, then, an entire financial system was premised on their not knowing, and paying them for this talent.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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Feinstein, who is well known for her opposition to drones, is premising her legislation on safety concerns.
From Forbes ● Dec. 3, 2014
One of his most premising innovations was a new Secretariat for non-Christian religions; but Paul entrusted the project to a Curia professional, Paolo Cardinal Marella, and almost nothing has been heard of it since.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Now, if you graft your ideas on to another's, premising that his views were crude and primitive, the result will be somewhat mixed.
From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by William Chauncey Bartlett
There is no way of accounting for the existence of spirit, of life, of intelligence, but by premising the prior existence of spirit, life, and intelligence.
From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Richard B. Westbrook
Of which he gives the following version, premising that the 's' in his copy has an additional stroke, which makes it sound st.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various
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