propose
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The slides presented to state senators propose that the cap on damages — when a utility is found to have acted imprudently — be made permanent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
Anthropic is expected to take a more traditional route and propose a range, according to people familiar with the offering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
There are also suggestions Timms could propose a new PIP eligibility test to reduce access, external, although he was not specifically instructed to find savings.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
Based on these findings, the researchers propose that the Mediterranean diet could support heart health in two complementary ways.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
It represents an intellectual breakthrough: Digges was the first competent astronomer explicitly to propose an infinite universe.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Demonstrators on Europe’s streets, its editorial proposes, are “consumed by rage”:
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026
He proposes “a more deeply philosophical optimism that does not necessarily make you happier or more cheerful, although . . . it should.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Neither state proposes an alternative to the Interior Department’s allocation; the thrust of their case is that the Interior Department hasn’t followed the law in imposing its own measures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
She's been heading a commission into adult social care since April last year and Burnham said her findings would influence what he proposes.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
One side proposes that Monte Alban formed because maize agriculture allowed the Oaxaca Valley’s population to grow so much that the rural villages naturally clustered into something resembling cities.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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The Welsh government said the consultation would seek views on the proposed "enforcement framework", including "online age-verification arrangements, assessing compliance activity, sanctions, implementation timescales and monitoring arrangements".
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
BBC Wales spoke to young people in Cardiff who said they supported the proposed ban, with one 17-year-old saying it was "really easy to start relying on them".
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, concerned about fraud in the sector, in July proposed eliminating Medicare payment for remote-monitoring services from third-party vendors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
“The bigger issue is the proposed Tesla-SpaceX combination,” David Wagner, a portfolio manager at Aptus Capital Advisors, told MarketWatch over email.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
Maudsley had studied mental illness among families and concluded that the patterns of inheritance were vastly more complex than the ones Galton had proposed.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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"I want to thank president Florentino Perez and the board for proposing that I join the board of directors of Real Madrid," Nadal said in his post on X, external.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
It is now proposing new powers that would allow it to force telecoms companies to hand over information or modify or disable services in connection with specific threats or incidents.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
In July, he called Cooks proposing an entirely new series, this time looking beyond a European lineage to one rooted in L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Gross trained Idealab.ai on a huge database of journalistic and professional articles, with an eye toward finding problem statements and then proposing business ideas to solve them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
John Mark’s proposing to her and she’s asking me?
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
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