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Recent Examples of proposition SiriusXM faces consumer skepticism regarding the satellite music company’s value proposition and investors’ doubts over its ability to grow long-term subscriptions given demographic shifts and continued declines in conversion rates, the Wall Street bank said. Pia Singh, CNBC, 13 Jan. 2025 Hundreds of thousands of homeowners around the country are being priced out of insurance or are unable to get it at all, as companies have pulled back from a losing proposition. Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025 The Main Zenbook Updates: New Guts for the Duo and Zenbook 14 The Zenbook A14 has the most going for it as a unique proposition, given its price and quality level, while these next two are chiefly component refreshes on existing designs. Matthew Buzzi, PCMAG, 8 Jan. 2025 Our value proposition became filling your grocery cart for you based on your preferences, goals, and lifestyle. Dave Knox, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for proposition 
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Noun
  • Previous observations suggested that these permanent shadows might host frozen water, an exciting hypothesis that the BepiColombo mission is set to investigate further.
    Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Some of Oppenheimer’s hypothesis may already be becoming reality.
    Alex Harring, CNBC, 10 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Only one of the dozens of senators voted against the proposal.
    Sarah Blaskey, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Trump’s comment may be aimed at garnering support for his proposal that, rather than a wholesale transfer of US TikTok to an American buyer, the United States and China could share control of the platform as a 50-50 joint venture.
    Clare Duffy, CNN, 25 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • All three men were national and international icons whose assassinations — and the theories swirling around them — became the stuff of books, movies, controversy, and the pages of history itself.
    Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The theory dates to An Emerging Democratic Majority, an influential 2002 book by political scientists John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira.
    Jane Hong / Made by History, TIME, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Choi’s suggestions haven’t mollified Young Poong and MBK Partners.
    Nicholas Gordon, Fortune Asia, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The fathers were there to help with questions, suggestions and smiles.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Essentially, the Hollywood veteran's thesis is this: Women can’t win.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
  • But one thing seems certain: Benjamin is likely going to receive a very good grade on his thesis.
    Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Atilano launched her business on a simple premise— farmers are the experts.
    Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The Bears Chairman reacted as if the mere premise of the question was absurd.
    Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 20 Jan. 2025

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“Proposition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/proposition. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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