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Food-safety scares in the restaurant business clouded the wraps’ initial impact, but executives hope the new value proposition will boost sales and traffic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 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

Whoever installed that roof cable is probably going to drink for free for life, and that’s an extraordinary proposition in Wisconsin with ice fishing season on the way.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

A small parcel of money with a proposition.

From "Legend" by Marie Lu

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

Nearly 80% of likely voters are frustrated by the length of the ballot, which includes 14 propositions as well as statewide, congressional and local elections.

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

Long propositions that didn’t seem to want to go much of anywhere and that were taking their time not wanting to go there.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

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

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