proposition
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She said that considering the "wholesale implementation" of the recommendations "provoked fundamental questions about the editorial proposition of a show that, I believe, has now run its course over 10 years".
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
The authors point out that an uncertain tax and policy environment, poor infrastructure and high trade barriers “made chip fabrication an unattractive proposition in India.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
Warren Buffett has spent decades making essentially the same wager, stating numerous times that betting against America is a losing proposition.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 1, 2026
The proposition backed by Kolodin does not specify how mail-in voters should prove their identity, but leaves the Republican-controlled legislature to devise the system at a later date.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026
“I have a proposition for you. Rather, the Council does.”
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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The measure had odds stacked against it, with two other propositions on the ballot that would have effectively reversed it, even if it passed.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
The propositions granted the state authority to issue a combined $8.5 billion in general obligation bonds — a loan that’s repaid with interest over time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
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
“Read the first two propositions, and then summarize them after dinner.”
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
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Tennessee propositioned Paramount Skydance, hoping to tempt it to become the next company to leave California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
During the trial against her husband and his half-brother, Carolyn Bryant took the stand and testified that Till had grabbed her hand and propositioned her.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2025
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
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
“It was everything from people propositioning me to, ‘You’ve ruined my childhood.’”
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 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
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