as in therefore
for this or that reason
according to that line of reasoning, the eyewitness couldn't identify the aircraft, ergo it must have been from another planet
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Recent Examples of ergo
Longtime Toronto pundit Damien Cox this past week suggested that the remedy might have to be a Marner trade, with the Leafs getting back young, promising (ergo: cheap) talent in the form of, say, a top-six forward and top-four defenseman.
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Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2019
In the hubbub around this controversy, likely many doctors felt too embarrassed to grab the pharma handout—ergo my reborn popularity.
—Kent Sepkowitz, Slate Magazine, 17 Feb. 2017
The global television audience is (at least) sixteen hundred times as big; ergo, the halftime show is more music video than live concert.
—Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2017
Isaacson helps us right away with The Big One: Jobs might have felt abandoned because he was put up for adoption, ergo, sentenced to a life of searching for approval.
—John C Abell, WIRED, 27 Oct. 2011
Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2019
In the hubbub around this controversy, likely many doctors felt too embarrassed to grab the pharma handout—ergo my reborn popularity.
—Kent Sepkowitz, Slate Magazine, 17 Feb. 2017
The global television audience is (at least) sixteen hundred times as big; ergo, the halftime show is more music video than live concert.
—Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2017
Isaacson helps us right away with The Big One: Jobs might have felt abandoned because he was put up for adoption, ergo, sentenced to a life of searching for approval.
—John C Abell, WIRED, 27 Oct. 2011
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ergo
Adverb
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Chance, therefore, leads to a feeling for something kind of magical.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Mar. 2026
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The ability to run and be aggressive is, therefore, a necessity.—
Sam Lee,
New York Times,
17 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Great gameplan from a great coach, nice adjustments throughout, and the offense flowed so nicely all night.—
American-Statesman staff,
Austin American Statesman,
20 Mar. 2026
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Some musicologists think Schubert struggled to finish the symphony because the first two movements were so good.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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But fans of schoolyard intrigue (and thus literary scandal) will be disappointed by the biography’s respectful sense of duty toward its subject.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
18 Mar. 2026
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President Joe Biden had installed Gary Gensler—a former Goldman Sachs partner, MIT blockchain professor, and thus a man who understood crypto better than almost any other regulator—to chair the SEC with the ambition to bring the industry to heel.—
Clara Molot,
Vanity Fair,
17 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Gillett says reactions are key to creating the emotional effects and rhythms of his and Bettinelli-Olpin’s cinema, hence the need for extensive coverage.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
19 Mar. 2026
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Were birds and squirrels and lizards getting in through her old doors and windows, hence the replacement?—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
16 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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That meant that urine samples with high sugar content could have started fermenting and consequently generated alcohol that could have skewed the test result or created a false positive.—
Fedor Zarkhin,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Mar. 2026
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Rising gas costs have consequently become a point of contention for the president, who prior to the war oversaw consistently lower prices compared to his predecessor — something the White House often touted.—
Claire Malon,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Mar. 2026
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“Ergo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ergo. Accessed 25 Mar. 2026.
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