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premeditating

verb

present participle of premeditate

as in contemplating

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The offer came at a time when Miami-Dade County Public Schools, and many other public school districts in Florida, have closed or consolidated schools and are contemplating even more closures.

— Austin Horn, Miami Herald, 8 Oct. 2026
Players sitting on the fence contemplating whether or not to commit to LIV Golf's future will be allowed to sit a bit longer.

— Mark Harris OutKick, FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2026

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The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are a particularly fertile period for meditating on this condition, then still experienced as striking, not yet normalized.

— Artforum, Artforum, 28 Sep. 2026
And one is this other mode of meditating on thoughts and not trying to understand it.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 17 Sep. 2026

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In June 2022, a man traveled from California to Kavanaugh’s home in Maryland with a handgun, ammunition, a knife, and zip ties, intending to kill the justice.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 4 Oct. 2026
Musk originally developed Starship for Mars, intending to launch scores of them with the red planet’s first settlers.

— Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of intending

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Since fashion businesses are aiming to streamline their operations, reduce excess inventory and improve forecasting, both leaders stress that the adoption of new technologies must lead to concrete commercial outcomes.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2026
Spain has seen an emerging coalition of the conservatives and the far right, which are both aiming to use migration concerns against the prime minister, whose government allowed over 1 million immigrants to apply for legal status.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026

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