ipse dixits

plural of ipse dixit

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Noun
  • Speaker Alondra Alvarez rejected claims that the city could not bar federal agents from its premises, citing Fourth Amendment protections but noting that a valid warrant would still grant them entry.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Ensure your home is securely locked when vacating the premises.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • And helping Kyiv get these systems will necessitate that NATO change its presumptions and priorities.
    ANDRIY ZAGORODNYUK, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2025
  • These presumptions are not conclusive and may be overcome by evidence that physical presence, even if for more than nine months during the tax year, was merely for a temporary or transitory purpose.
    Tom Cullinan, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Hierarchy matters less than ideas, and consultants are trained to challenge assumptions and present counterarguments, even to senior partners or client CEOs.
    Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Her existence in the vibrant capital city of Sepphoris brings into questions some of our traditional assumptions of Mary as an impoverished illiterate from a backwater rural village with no exposure to Greco-Roman culture.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The hope of deriving one set of rules, or axioms, to govern all mathematical truths was fatally undermined.
    Theodore McDarrah, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The experts then had to agree on the fundamental truths, or axioms, that were accepted as true even thought they could not be proven.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • In construction, hiring often relies on regional knowledge, team dynamics and reputation—factors that structured dialogue or hypotheticals cannot capture effectively.
    Aaron Dhaliwal, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Governor does not comment on hypotheticals, spokesman says DeWine's reticence on the guard question came a little more than a half hour into a press conference called to announce a new agreement for the state patrol to assist crime-fighting in Cincinnati.
    Patricia Gallagher Newberry, Cincinnati Enquirer, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The documentary will explore how the letters and the gospels of the New Testament were written, preserved, and passed down as the most influential book in history.
    Leia Mendoza, Variety, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • To operate effectively, coalition forces need joint doctrines, training cycles, and logistics systems.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Some of these nations have strategic doctrines that include launching disruptive or even destructive cyberattacks on such non-military targets in the run-up to conflict.
    Jim Richberg, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Private cloud is also where organizations can focus on delivering AI and what’s next, knowing that security, governance and compliance are givens rather than points of concern.
    Patrick Moorhead, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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“Ipse dixits.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ipse%20dixits. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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