premeditative

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for premeditative
Adjective
  • Now, Stewart has made a conscious decision to go back to her natural color for fall 2025.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
  • This is especially true with the sun entering Scorpio, and your socially conscious 11th house of associations, community and sense of belonging in the world.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Every frame of the film feels intentional, capturing the river and forests of the Amazon with great attention to the light and sounds of the region.
    Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 24 Oct. 2025
  • That’s how intentional and curated the event felt.
    Essence, Essence, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Those old-fashioned TV-show plots with a premeditated murder committed for some explicable reason, that’s really an anachronism.
    Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Nigel Edge was arrested Saturday on charges including first-degree murder in what police are calling a premeditated attack.
    Chris Arnold, NPR, 28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • That was a 109-mph missile over the center field fence, much higher than its intended target and hundreds of feet farther.
    Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Ratified in 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment is short, a mere fifty words including the section headings, but with a large intended effect.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 25 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The Rockets, who surprisingly finished second in the West behind Oklahoma City last season, were dealt a tough blow over the summer, though, when point guard Fred VanVleet was lost for the season to a torn ACL suffered during a voluntary workout.
    Joe Vardon, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Wegmans Food Markets issued a voluntary recall of six varieties of cheesecake on September 26 because of undeclared pecans.
    News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The tactic, analysts say, is deliberate – part of a broader effort to wear down Taiwan’s air force, degrade equipment and exhaust Taiwan’s personnel.
    Eryk Michael Smith, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Every detail feels deliberate yet easy and unforced.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Sabanci reiterated that lifelong learning, social connection and purposeful activity support brain resilience.
    Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The late artist’s work would potentially be used on scarves, towels and other items with a purposeful message.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Strengthening transcendence, with its associated behaviors of being purposive, inspired, optimistic, creative, and future-oriented, helps to broaden your perspective and see beyond the immediate challenges.
    Mary Crossan, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • For Defoe, meaning is purposive and theological, purposive because theological.
    James Wood, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
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“Premeditative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/premeditative. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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