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"This was a premeditative, systematic event," police chief Yaacov Shabtai told journalists.

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2023

And withal, what a strange proof is it of Cromwell's being the premeditative ever-calculating hypocrite, acting a play before the world, That to the last he took no more charge of his Speeches!

From On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas

And withal, what a strange proof is it of Cromwell’s being the premeditative ever-calculating hypocrite, acting a play before the world, That to the last he took no more charge of his Speeches!

From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas

If the foregoing accusation be at all true, its truth must certainly be the result of carelessness and ignorance of human rights, and not premeditative inhumanity and criminality as it seems to be!

From Farm Boys and Girls by McKeever, William Arch