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ipse dixits

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plural of ipse dixit

as in premises

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And as for Amazon’s core cloud business, which has seen its own boost from post-training reinforcement learning and agent tool use, Jassy noted that 85% of global IT spending is still on-premises.

— Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 31 July 2026
Investigators found his ashes in a brown paper bag on the floor of the funeral director’s premises more than a year after Bush handed her a little blue coffin and told her Sunny’s ashes were inside.

— ABC News, ABC News, 31 July 2026

Definition of premises

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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
Another postulates that sleep removes waste from the brain.

— Shayla Love, New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2026

Definition of postulates

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The letter makes presumptions about herbicides and pesticides that do not line up with its proposal outlined on a website detailing the training center project, the statement said.

— Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2026
But, once again, some presumptions were made by the auditors.

— Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 10 June 2026

Definition of presumptions

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These failures stemmed not from new vulnerabilities, but from basic security flaws like weak passwords and unauthenticated endpoints, and reliance on assumptions over robust controls.

— Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
Was there anything that challenged your own assumptions about what's happening along our northern border?

— Dana Taylor, USA Today, 31 July 2026

Definition of assumptions

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Spiritual philosopher Alan Watts is mentioned in Past the Veil’s press release, and Lay imbues these axioms with profundity like only the best teachers can.

— Linnie Greene, Pitchfork, 29 July 2026
Everything in mathematics therefore rests on the axioms, or basic building blocks, of the field.

— Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 26 May 2026

Definition of axioms

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The walls are robin’s-egg blue, painted with images of meditating skeletons and vaguely inspirational maxims.

— John Semley, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026
By now, decades into Americans’ pursuit of cooking as a mainstream hobby, certain maxims have become near-law among food lovers.

— Emily Heil, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2026

Definition of maxims

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There’s no reason to believe organizers of PGA tournaments, marathons, NASCAR races and similar sporting would ever demand payment, and thus the hypotheticals are arguably scare tactics rather than realistic consequences.

— Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 21 July 2026
His second-guessing doesn’t stanch his inner torrent of bile, which continues through dinner with Irène and her mother, and goes on for another fifteen pages of emotional hypotheticals and conditionals.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 9 July 2026

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