proposition
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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
FlyDubai’s model has been built on a simple proposition: a low-cost airline connecting a region where air travel is often difficult and dangerous.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
“If consumers increasingly rely on generative AI as a shopping discovery tool, Walmart appears well-positioned to benefit because its value proposition is simple for models to understand and communicate,” they continued.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 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
“You should consider it,” Ayesha says when I tell her about David’s proposition.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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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
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
"Cyc validated that much of the knowledge that makes people experts cannot be articulated as propositions."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
It’s choosing people who only allocate capital to losing propositions.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
The author also derived implications of the seven propositions of early children education and movement responses to music.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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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
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
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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