premise
Example Sentences
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The company’s premise that consumers would pay a premium for sustainably made products proved flawed, according to an analyst.
The RCA opposed the bid, with its barristers stating it was "blindingly obvious" that Rosindell's licence to use the premises only applied when he was a Tory.
From BBC
But Anthropic, a company premised on model safety, wasn’t sleeping.
I disagreed with the premise of the symposium and declined.
She hit upon the premise for the series right around her 27th birthday, a time when more and more of her friends began to get married, and developed the idea while working on other projects.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.