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They issued a joint statement, asserting that the museum never set a specific target for native plants, but did not respond to the proposition.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

The proposition was shocking to CISA’s career staffers, according to one of the former officials.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026

I have long disagreed with that proposition, provided the Fed’s forward guidance is honest and clear.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

This makes it a proposition unlike any other in Serbia's relatively short democratic history.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Dustfinger considered this a very reasonable proposition, but Silvertongue thought it over only briefly before shaking his head.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

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

“This year, there are more propositions on the ballot than we’ve seen for a decade,” Baldassare said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

"Cyc validated that much of the knowledge that makes people experts cannot be articulated as propositions."

From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026

The Declaration isn’t a set of propositions in political science issued by an academic committee.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

And now they—or the woman, at any rate—made impossible propositions.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

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