as in premeditated
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Adjective
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This real-life story of betrayal, manipulation, and premeditated murder inspired the new Spanish thriller A Widow’s Game (La Viuda Negra), premiering May 30 on Netflix.—
Isadora Wandermurem,
Time,
30 May 2025 -
That this was a premeditated attack is not in dispute.—
Susan B. Glasser,
New Yorker,
22 May 2025
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Cannes got its own cliff-hanger ending on Saturday, the final day of the 78th film festival, when a power outage, apparently caused by deliberate sabotage, shut down the power grid serving the city and much of the surrounding region.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
24 May 2025
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The most effective tech leaders develop broad expertise through deliberate exploration and interactions.—
Dennis Kozak,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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Instead, teams have to start taking more calculated risks and learn when to spend and when to wait.—
Shayna Goldman,
New York Times,
22 May 2025
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In these dark facilities, deprivation is official policy and isolation a calculated punishment.—
Antonio Maria Delgado,
Miami Herald,
20 May 2025
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Read more Dua and Callum’s Couple Style Is, Like Them, Hot Turner’s low-key but considered looks are the perfect backdrop to his girlfriend’s more mercurial wardrobe.—
Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
27 Dec. 2024
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Working from Jeff Nathanson’s screenplay, Jenkins tries to allay a clunky narrative with his intimate and considered style.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
17 Dec. 2024
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The wind screens deflect a fair amount of wind (and rain), but Super 3 drivers are well advised to wear some form of eye protection.—
Mike Duff,
Car and Driver,
15 June 2022
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Roughly 34 of those private wells contained lesser amounts of the chemicals, and 15 of the wells exceeded the advised health limit, just like the tap water at the town hall.—
Andrew Brown,
courant.com,
7 Sep. 2021
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The top 100 scoring cities, formed the site’s Top 100 Best Places to Live, representing the top 5% of U.S. cities with populations in the studied range.—
Fernanda Galan,
Sacbee.com,
3 June 2025
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But my outsized feelings of enclosure and entrapment were the tunnel vision of a forty-year-old fear crashing through my long and studied insulation.—
Sarah Beckwith,
New Yorker,
26 May 2025
Adjective
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Páez was also convicted of two counts of aggravated homicide, qualified by intent and malice aforethought.—
Greg Wehner,
Fox News,
25 Feb. 2023
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Depraved-indifference murder is not supposed to be a sleight-of-hand that elevates manslaughter to murder, or that effectively turns an unintentional killing into an intentional murder by substituting depraved indifference for malice aforethought.—
Andrew C. McCarthy,
National Review,
7 Mar. 2021
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The Bruins got singles from Savannah Pola and Jordan Woolery followed by an intentional walk to Grant.—
Houston Mitchell,
Los Angeles Times,
2 June 2025
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This underscores the urgent need for intentional rest practices that go beyond traditional vacation days.—
Jasmine Browley,
Essence,
2 June 2025
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“Prepense.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prepense. Accessed 7 Jun. 2025.
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