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plural of premise
as in yard
the area around and belonging to a building detectives painstakingly searched the premises for clues to the disappearance

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verb

present tense third-person singular of premise

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Recent Examples of premises
Noun
Keeping data onsite DiagFit also supports on-premises deployment, giving customers an alternative to sending operational information into cloud infrastructure. Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2026 The Partner-Centric Cloud Advantage Integrators can leverage multitenant cloud platforms to eliminate on-premises server overhead and centralize multisite administration. Robert Messer, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026 After becoming the sole proprietor of the historic studio premises, Taidelli then began a comprehensive refurbishment project in 2024, marking the couple’s first collaboration together. Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 15 Sep. 2026 Russian forces also repeatedly struck a shopping center in the southern Mykolaiv region with drones overnight, damaging retail premises and sparking fires, Ukraine’s state emergency services said. Kyla Guilfoil, NBC news, 5 Sep. 2026 As the quartet’s planning proceeds, complete with a Lego model of the bank premises, Hamza’s wrangling for a larger share of the haul is relentless. Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2026 Sustained gunfire began past midnight at the premises of the Diori Hamani International Airport, which hosts a major military base, according to an AP witness who requested anonymity for safety reasons. ABC News, 29 Aug. 2026 The premises is also set to exhibit thousands of objects sourced from the Powerhouse Collection, a massive national archive of artifacts. News Desk, Artforum, 28 Aug. 2026 The 68-year-old governor Friday touted the state’s rollback of a regulation that required restaurants or bars to obtain special permission to allow any form of dancing on their premises. Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 28 Aug. 2026
Verb
Blank Forms has announced plans to shift base from its current Clinton Hill, Brooklyn premises to an 8,000-square-foot open plan loft on the sixth floor of 151 Lafayette Street in SoHo. News Desk, Artforum, 21 Aug. 2026 Florida premises liability often turns on whether the business had notice of a dangerous condition. Miami Herald, 14 Aug. 2026 Kyson Cook, an AT&T premises technician, walks through an AT&T facility in Kettering, Ohio. Gabrielle Fonrouge, CNBC, 19 May 2026 The firm established its initial focus on labor law enforcement and premises liability cases, vehicle accident cases, and medical malpractice cases. Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 8 May 2026 The complaint alleged negligence and premises liability on the part of the school district, and the family is seeking damages. David Chiu, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026 The mother is suing the district for negligence and premises liability and is seeking damages for medical bills, emotional distress and other relief. Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026 Silva is suing for gross negligence and premises liability, alleging Valero failed to take reasonable steps to protect workers and prevent the fire. Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Feb. 2026 Alexandrea Springfield is seeking amounts in excess of $25,000 for negligence and premises liability, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in Jackson County. Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 16 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for premises
Noun
  • Toney finished the game with 12 catches for 114 yards and a touchdown.
    Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Fecht later added a 13-yard TD toss to Brendon Salach before sitting out the second half.
    Paul Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Legacy SaaS assumes a human will return to the interface, and an AI-native platform assumes an agent is always running.
    Rafael Flores, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026
  • The low case assumes almost two-thirds of current reactors are expected to retire.
    Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Dining, shopping, and a park are all within walking distance.
    The Week US, TheWeek, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Crow-Armstrong’s 27 homers at Wrigley trail only Schwarber (28) for the most hit in a player’s home park this season.
    Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Goriely says other explanations, such as that this architectural style improved drainage or simply that the ancient Greeks liked it, hold more weight than any illusion.
    Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Nothing says horror movie like glow-in-the-dark blood stains in your hotel room.
    Aly Walansky, Travel + Leisure, 22 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Instead of constructing a large containment structure above ground, the company plans to place the reactor inside a borehole roughly one mile below the surface.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2026
  • So prohibiting this technique on safety grounds would also tend to result in higher prices.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • But this presumes a kind of psychological transparency that simply doesn’t hold up.
    Brian O'Neill, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2026
  • The group presumes the deal would need approval from Chicago’s City Council as well.
    Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Anyone who believes they were victimized by Lynch or has information relevant to the investigation is asked to contact Prince George’s County detectives.
    Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Episode 4 begins with Stuart confined to a mental health facility, where he’s heavily medicated and quietly judged by a psychiatrist who believes his visions of alternate universes are all in his head.
    Derek Lawrence, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • One of the theories postulates that the ribbon represents a group of particles that somehow leaked from the heliosphere and bounced around interstellar space before returning to the Solar System.
    Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 24 Sep. 2025

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