proposition

Ostapenko often took the racquet out of Kartal's hands with her explosive - and often erratic - brand of first-strike tennis, but Chwalinska was a different proposition.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

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

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

“I think it’s a risky proposition for Starbucks, given that they are in the middle of a turnaround effort that is seemingly going well,” Seaport Research analyst Eric Gonzalez said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

He was the first to prove geometric theorems of the sort codified by Euclid three centuries later—for example, the proposition that the angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

"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

It’s choosing people who only allocate capital to losing propositions.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

In poverty, as in certain propositions in physics, starting conditions are everything.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

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

“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