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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 -
Among geologists, there are givens: Humans don’t build things that last a million years.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
8 Oct. 2025
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The sprawling premise gave Gilligan his first opportunity to film outside of North America, including stops in northern Spain and the Canary Islands.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
3 Nov. 2025
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Ensure your home is securely locked when vacating the premises.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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Some feminists saw that as presumption, skipping the long price of admission—slights, salaries, stares.—
James Marcus,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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All these tropes — gaydar and girls without it — make for easier narratives, but the presumption that the codes of the heart can be deciphered on the body is one that, outside the world of absurdist comedy — and probably sometimes within it as well — can wound and damage.—
Kelly Foster Lundquist,
PEOPLE,
2 Nov. 2025
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But today the dictum applies to Israel, as well.—
RICHARD HAASS,
Foreign Affairs,
3 Sep. 2025
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Not that Wolfe’s dictum was totally off the mark.—
David McGrath,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Aug. 2025
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The reason, the authors of a new study postulate, has to do with light pollution.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
21 Aug. 2025
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Now, tangible results have emerged in a field replete with postulates and presumptions.—
Jenna Ahart,
Quanta Magazine,
2 July 2025
Noun
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The ‘major questions’ doctrine, a principle way to interpret statutes, prevents Congress from hiding major powers in insignificant laws.—
Morgan Chalfant,
semafor.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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But Sauer argued that the doctrine doesn’t hold with regard to foreign affairs, where the President has some inherent constitutional authority.—
Jeannie Suk Gersen,
New Yorker,
6 Nov. 2025
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Bell might also question those billionaires and pose hypotheticals to gauge their reactions.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
20 Oct. 2025
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The narrative too often focuses on headlines and hypotheticals, rather than on structure, incentives, and outcomes.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
17 Oct. 2025
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Calculated under standard assumptions, this revenue would cover about two-thirds of the primary deficit impact of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) over the next five years—more if temporary OBBBA provisions expire on schedule.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
4 Nov. 2025
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Whoever wins, assumptions about what matters in politics are taking a beating.—
Newsweek Staff,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
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“Ipse dixit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ipse%20dixit. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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