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proposition

[prop-uh-zish-uhn] / ˌprɒp əˈzɪʃ ən /




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Bulgaria's second largest city was selected for its "strong overall proposition, combining the venue and technical potential" - including hotel capacity, transport and international travel.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

Winograde: And because of the price point, it’s a whole different risk-reward proposition.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

Wright said the company’s traffic, value proposition and franchisee economics aren’t currently meeting expectations.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

None of this makes the show’s basic proposition false.

From Salon Aug. 5, 2026

There was a formal debate on the always contentious proposition that “the East is a better place to live than the West.”

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

"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

“Big attractions are very expensive propositions for parks to put in, and parks like Fiesta Village can’t keep up with that.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 7, 2026

"I hope we can reach a compromise, including new propositions," Lange said.

From Barron's May 19, 2026

Surveillance software sprouted in every cranny of the ballpark, first in service of providing more data for teams and front offices to pore over, then as fuel for ever more esoteric betting propositions.

From Salon Apr. 13, 2026

After 1653 this dispute turned on the question of whether the five Jansenist propositions condemned by the pope as heretical were or were not to be found in Jansen’s Augustinus.

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

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

Before Patrick is propositioned to take Kat out, he is portrayed as scary, lonely and unapproachable.

From Salon Apr. 8, 2024

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




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