ipse dixits

Definition of ipse dixitsnext
plural of ipse dixit

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Noun
  • The ministry posted a statement in Spanish on X saying Consulate officials immediately impeded the agents from entering the consulate’s premises, protecting Ecuadorian nationals who were inside the building.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Then came digital transformation, turning on-premises work such as marketing, commerce, or HR into digital services, often rented via remote cloud computing.
    Bipul Sinha, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • ProPublica, in a 2023 story, reexamined the incident, the legal presumptions, the background of the men and Stingley’s father’s relentless legal campaign to bring the men into court.
    Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 16 Jan. 2026
  • The series later won five Emmys, upending presumptions about the kinds of shows people still really want to watch.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • That runs counter to decades of assumptions about Chondrichthyan fishes, the group that includes sharks, rays, skates and chimaeras.
    Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The community response is not only defending people, but also providing a powerful counter-narrative that is proving MAGA’s assumptions about America wrong.
    James Folta, Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • His preference would be to find simpler axioms for quantum mechanics — intuitive principles that would let theorists re-derive the theory in a new form altogether.
    Daniel Garisto, Quanta Magazine, 7 Nov. 2025
  • In other words, as Cleveland tore through the league last season, the players responded to most of the milestones reached with a collective shrug and worn axioms about nothing mattering until the playoffs.
    Joe Vardon, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The rest of the book is spent expanding on these maxims one by one, in her colloquial, easy style, with references to classic psychological studies, her own research and her own experiences.
    Lamorna Ash, The Dial, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Everything bops breezily along, stopping occasionally to have Dek growl maxims about strength through domination, and observe a decapitation or two.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The Library of Congress has discussed these hypotheticals, but notes neither the 12th nor the 22nd Amendment clearly addresses such scenarios.
    Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Dec. 2025
  • His forthcoming book outlines a series of extreme hypotheticals, including succession scenarios triggered by national emergencies.
    Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 18 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • This famous illuminated manuscript is a 1,200-year-old version of the four gospels, elaborately inked and meticulously illustrated by faithful monks, who went to great lengths in creating the 680-page book.
    Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 20 Jan. 2026
  • And a lot of the pseudepigrapha, like the fake gospels and fake apocalypses, fill in gaps in the record that can serve latter-day, post-biblical purposes.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The hysteria about a superior race, the insistence that all would be well if one insidious group was purged—those doctrines had been entirely defeated.
    Joan Silber, New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2025
  • Fundamental philosophical and religious doctrines emerged in China, India, and the Middle East, along with Greece.
    Big Think, Big Think, 16 Nov. 2025
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“Ipse dixits.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ipse%20dixits. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.

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