proposition

It is a far more modern and accessible proposition than the old Jarama circuit, around 30 kilometres north of the city, which hosted the Spanish Grand Prix between 1968 and 1981.

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

Their experience supports the proposition that renewables can expand without a binding quota.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

The Cardinals coaching staff is a wait-and-see proposition.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

There were some doubts about Manchester City after the way they lost the Community Shield against Arsenal, but they look a different proposition already.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

This was in a lecture room, and I invited him to consider the proposition: ‘There is no hippopotamus in this room at present.’

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026

California voters will decide 14 statewide propositions in the Nov. 3 election, measures placed on the ballot mostly by either powerful interest groups or lawmakers that will affect the lives of millions of Californians.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

To be sure, what theologians were investigating was, by definition, mysterious—unprovable in the way that scientific propositions are provable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

He wondered if he would be reading propositions by Robert Barclay if he were sitting at a desk in the Phippsburg schoolhouse.

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

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