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ipse dixits

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plural of ipse dixit

as in premises

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Her crunchy-granola Mom and Dad (Maya Erskine and Jake Johnson) seem more than a little overprotective of their youngest child; the reluctant babysitter is given strict instructions not to leave the premises.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2026
The area restricts movement on or off any premises with poultry.

— WCCO Staff, CBS News, 20 Oct. 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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To many, not least the young, both literary culture and the world of bookselling are beginning a great new climb, calling into question many presumptions about the digital century and the market models that sustain it.

— Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2026
These were all reasonable presumptions at that time but would also require years of data to evaluate.

— David N. Hackney, STAT, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of presumptions

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Even watching a magic trick can challenge our assumptions about the world and stimulate more original thinking.

— Julie Bourdin, NPR, 25 Oct. 2026
In the short term, slowing demand would mean lower emissions from the existing system than today’s baseline assumptions and less investment in new natural gas infrastructure.

— Justin Worland, Time, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of assumptions

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In other words, in both mathematical and religious uses, an oracle provides answers to problems that could not be resolved within an existing system or set of axioms.

— Ambuj Tewari, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2026
The question fascinated David Hilbert, a renowned mathematician who had devoted much of his life to rebuilding physics on a sturdy foundation of crisp axioms.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of axioms

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Groups of implicatures Grice identified three broad groups of implicatures generated through the observance, violation, or flouting of maxims in keeping with the cooperative principle.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Sep. 2026
The walls are robin’s-egg blue, painted with images of meditating skeletons and vaguely inspirational maxims.

— John Semley, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026

Definition of maxims

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When asked about why voters should choose him over Vance, who is seen as the GOP’s likeliest presidential candidate, Kennedy did not wade into hypotheticals.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 4 Oct. 2026
Some analysts voiced skepticism about the risk of a societal-scale attack carried out by AI, however, noting that such warnings typically come in the form of vague hypotheticals.

— Max Zahn, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of hypotheticals

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