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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Watching soccer ball movements in microgravity can therefore lead to better design to account for the sensors, the agency noted.
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The buffet restaurant's food safety grade was therefore not affected, Lee-Thompson told the NZ Herald.
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Hearing a bat has contracted rabies near Lodi Lake is not so shocking.
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Charles reveals tax bill By law, the British king is not obliged to pay income, capital gains or inheritance tax, but Charles, like his mother did after 1993, has voluntarily done so without disclosing the amounts.
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There were no shots on target in this first half, which had not happened in the group stage thus far.
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The Grizzlies appear to be entering a rebuild and would thus value draft selections.
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Growing numbers of Labour MPs called for Starmer to quit, but with Burnham unable to run as party leader – and hence prime minister – since rules and convention state that only serving MPs can do so, no one was willing or able to launch an official challenge.
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These particles reflect the water’s color back to the surface—hence the strikingly intense turquoise hues.
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Elsewhere, multiple senior bankers at Western lenders argued that the continent’s fragmented financial markets undermined its financial might, at a cost to European startups in the tech and energy sectors that were consequently unable to compete for financing to the extent of US counterparts.
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The World Cup has brought an onslaught of international soccer fans, and consequently, taste buds.
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“Ergo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ergo. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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