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ipse dixit

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as in given

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Schedule flexibility, reliable childcare, predictable transportation—these are treated as givens in how jobs are designed.

— Caroline Fairchild, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2026
Where the show’s values were once givens, almost diorama labels, now they’re presented as more fugitive and unstable, what its characters would hope the world to be.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025

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Torres wrote that courts apply a presumption against preemption in areas where states historically exercised their police powers, and gambling regulation has historically been left to states.

— Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 8 July 2026
The presumption was the decor would involve tons of flowers, given the elaborate floral arrangements surrounding Swift when Kelce proposed to her in his Leawood backyard last summer.

— Lisa Gutierrez July 7, Kansas City Star, 7 July 2026

Definition of presumption

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Not really Dagmar Bruss, professor and Head of the Quantum Information Theory group at HHU, and her doctoral researcher, Pedro Barrios Hita, conducted a new analysis of the postulates used in the 2021 paper and found one to be too restrictive.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 22 June 2026
Euclid’s postulates for geometry; various schemes for standardizing arithmetic.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 29 Apr. 2026

Definition of postulate

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Even Fitz-Gerald’s locker is a callback to his mom’s doctrines.

— Spencer Nusbaum, New York Times, 10 July 2026
But the doctrine has been employed in very limited circumstances in the past, and the government has never developed rules to ensure that it is not abused.

— Benjamin Leff, The Conversation, 9 July 2026

Definition of doctrine

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With that in mind, let’s run through some of those hypotheticals that Zito will be facing — and has been facing — as free agency looms.

— Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 28 June 2026
And in desperate times, people don’t tend to think in hypotheticals or a decade out.

— Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 24 June 2026

Definition of hypothetical

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Other research pointed in the same direction, and by 2008, Falk and other exercise physiologists were arguing against the status-quo assumption that kids had some major natural deficits in thermoregulation.

— Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 11 July 2026
Success increasingly depends on a leader’s ability to navigate cultural differences, foster inclusion, and build trust among people whose assumptions, communication styles, and expectations may vary dramatically.

— Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026

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