Thesaurus results for ERGO

ergo

adverb

ˈer-(ˌ)gō

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. —

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

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Credit, therefore, for how Wrexham responded, belatedly bringing a sense of urgency to their play and halving the deficit through Windass’ composed 34th-minute finish.

— Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
Alternatively, the left-handed neutrinos could turn out to be slightly ambidextrous and therefore capable of giving themselves mass.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 8 Apr. 2026