premeditate

verb

Definition of premeditatenext
as in to intend

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Recent Examples of premeditate This was premeditated, it was planned, someone meant to kill Carlos' father. — Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 17 May 2023 Prosecutors said the deadly attack may also have been premeditated. — Tristan Balagtas, Peoplemag, 5 May 2023 Avila’s lawyer argued her actions were not premeditated and that her undiagnosed mental health disorder played a role. — Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 2 May 2023 Prosecutors allege that the killing was premeditated, pointing to the fact that Momeni had brought a cooking knife, which police later found at the crime scene, and drove Lee to a remote location. — Kylie Robison, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2023 See All Example Sentences for premeditate
Recent Examples of Synonyms for premeditate
  1. intend
  2. contemplate
  3. meditate
  4. mean
  5. have on
  6. aim
Verb
  • Project Nessie was intended to stop retail price-matching practices from creating unsustainably low prices, the e-commerce giant said.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
  • According to people familiar with discussions about the policy, Bennett’s prior objections were a message intended for his domestic political constituency.
    — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of intend
Verb
  • In Eatontown, Daunt got out of the car in a strip mall, to contemplate a mild calamity.
    — Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Parents contemplate a future where their children graduate into a world where AI has taken over all entry-level jobs.
    — Kiryn Hoffman, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of contemplate
Verb
  • Koon would later be diagnosed with depression, and has since feared meditating again.
    — Lé Baltar, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Before joining OpenAI in 2020, Almeida took a year and a half off to travel, meditate and play games.
    — Wen Shao, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of meditate
Verb
  • For a trailer covering 100,000 miles annually, that could mean approximately USD 1,854 in yearly fuel savings.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026
  • That means studying GRBs may tell us about how these elements originated.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of mean
Verb
  • The Cowboys did beat Oregon, and that win is better than anything Houston has on their schedule.
    — OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
  • There is no way, of course, to isolate how much any particular ad campaign or funding stream had on the result.
    — Christopher Spata, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of have on
Verb
  • Russia's heavy bombardment of the power grid ahead of winter has been an annual feature of the war, aimed at wearing down Ukraine's appetite for the fight by denying civilians heat and running water.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Marshall has consistently voted against Senate War Powers Resolutions aimed at halting or restricting military operations in Iran.
    — Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of aim

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