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How to use the word premeditated in a Sentence?

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PEN America is reeling from shock and horror at the word of a brutal, premeditated attack on our former President and stalwart ally, Sir Salman Rushdie, who was reportedly stabbed multiple times while on stage speaking at the Chautauqua Institute in upstate New York, we can think of no comparable incident of a public attack on a literary writer on American soil.

Suzanne Nossel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Someone knows this person. We're asking for the public to find them, this person is carrying out a premeditated attack of shooting innocent people.

Eric Adams

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The fact that it was prerecorded and then released at a specific time indicates indeed that there's some kind of premeditated plot here.

Clarissa Ward

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It seems very organized and premeditated and I would like to know who is behind the funding for this organization. Is the state of California mismanaging federal funds? Are private entities funding this? Are foreign organizations funding these private entities?

Lance Gooden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This verdict makes a mockery of justice by believing an incoherent story professed by an admitted liar, and then compensating that liar with an award… while subjecting these boys to a sentence that is reserved for unredeemable, career criminals that commit premeditated killings.

Craig Peters

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It shows a definite consciousness of guilt.I think it's an important piece of evidence, not only for the investigation but for the prosecution later to show that this wasn't accidental, this wasn't because she doesn't know how to raise children...this is because she made a decision and she was premeditated in that decision.

Melissa Hoppmeyer

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

While we are still learning more about the details, current information suggests this may have been a premeditated crime targeted toward people of color, which makes the incident even more disturbing, i immediately reached out to the police when I learned of the incident, asking them to use all available resources to pursue the perpetrators as quickly as possible.

Satya Rhodes-Conway

Found on CNN
3 years ago

These attacks are therefore premeditated, orchestrated, and executed with a clear objective – to make the state ungovernable.

Julius Maada Bio

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

What we saw yesterday was a premeditated, violent anti-Semitic hate crime, in other words, you can say it was an act of terror because it was premeditated, it was violent, and it was directed at the Jewish community.

De Blasio

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The government will not be dropping premeditated murder charges against Chief Petty Officer Gallagher, despite petty officer Scott's testimony, the credibility of a witness is for the jury to decide.

Friday Navy

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Over the past four months, the Saudi authorities have been less than forthcoming in their dealings with their Turkish counterparts and the international community, saudi authorities must extradite Mr. Khashoggi's killers to Turkey, where they committed a premeditated murder, as proof of their willingness to serve the cause of justice.

Fahrettin Altun

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

They( Cricket Australia) have got no option but to stand and then sack Steve Smith, Dave Warner and Darren Lehmann, they've got no option because this was premeditated and calculated at the break and those guys are in charge of Cameron Bancroft behaving the way Steve Smith did. It's a bigger problem than that, Cameron Bancroft's been instructed to do this and anyone in cricket knows the captain and coach are in control of what happens in the team.

Simon Katich

Found on CNN
6 years ago

We learned during this investigation that this was a carjacking gone bad, these four individuals that were arrested for first-degree homicide had planned this, premeditated this.

Randy Smith

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

This is premeditated religious discrimination, plain and simple, we hope that this serves as a reminder to universities everywhere that they cannot discriminate against student groups just because they don’t like their beliefs.

Eric Baxter

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I had five birth children and I now consider myself a father of three, i no longer recognize Oliver and Kate as my own. I would ask them to stop using the Hudson name. They are no longer a part of my life. Oliver’s Instagram post was a malicious, vicious, premeditated attack.

Bill Hudson

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It seemed to be a premeditated and targeted project, according to all the witness statements gathered, he had a resolute attitude and was determined to carry out his actions.

Moroccan Ayoub el Khazzani

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Women in general are attacked in the face ... attacks against men are generally more in the torso, which aren't aimed at ending their lives. It's a premeditated crime.

Martha Lucia Sanchez

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.

Albert Camus

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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