proposition

Ostapenko often took the racquet out of Kartal's hands with her explosive - and often erratic - brand of first-strike tennis, but Chwalinska was a different proposition.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Building a terrestrial wireless network — one that relies on cell towers and other related infrastructure — is a different proposition, and a highly expensive one at that.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

Daniel Farke's side are really solid but also carry a big threat too, and they are a very different proposition to the side Arsenal thumped 5-0 at Emirates Stadium at the start of last season.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

FlyDubai’s model has been built on a simple proposition: a low-cost airline connecting a region where air travel is often difficult and dangerous.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

"I have a proposition," I tell him as he engages in another miracle of engineering—that of fastening his seat belt.

From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan

Every so often, refineries shut down for months to work on “turnarounds” — top-to-bottom refurbishment and replacement cycles due to safety and other regulations — which are expensive propositions.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

"You can decompose a thought into subcomponents, like little atoms of logical propositions, and you can combine them in a hierarchical manner to make more complex structured rules, very akin to language."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

This demonstrates the value of America’s lead, but it isn’t clear government has a better solution to the safety risks even as it threatens to turn the labs’ billion-dollar superintelligence bets into lose-lose propositions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Californians are accustomed to legislating by the ballot and often face a list of propositions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

He maintained, for example, at one time that all existential propositions are meaningless.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Tennessee propositioned Paramount Skydance, hoping to tempt it to become the next company to leave California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026

Anyone with a cellphone has been propositioned at least once by this type of arrangement: the recruiter with a great offer to earn extra money, and with very little required of you.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2025

Azhagu told us he and Mayur had also been propositioned in the street.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2024

However, just yesterday the concept of caviar as a casual snack was propositioned yet again — and this time by Pringles.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2023

During his on-court interview, the second-seeded Italian was propositioned from someone in the crowd.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 18, 2022

But when Bobbie takes advantage of Jamie’s jitters to suggest that he marry her instead of Paul, she doesn’t seem needy or wolfish, as Bobby did when propositioning Amy; she seems foolish and disrespectful.

From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2021

The company investigated and found that Matthews’s conduct was inappropriate and offensive, though it concluded that he wasn’t propositioning the woman, according to reports from the Daily Caller eventually confirmed by the network.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2020

“There is no one — man, woman, founder, V.C., the most aggressive feminist, no one — who would have thought a male V.C. would get fired for propositioning a woman. It’s just a radical change.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2017

In 1975, Fisher made a brief but memorable film debut propositioning Warren Beatty in the satire Shampoo, before landing her big break on Star Wars, where she sported a hairstyle she described as “hairy earphones”.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 27, 2016

She observes protocol with a pratfall, practices diplomacy by outright propositioning.

From Time Magazine Archive