ipse dixit

Definition of ipse dixitnext

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Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • The Daily Monitor reported on Sunday that military personnel had been deployed at NMG’s premises in the capital, Kampala, and that staff were being prevented from leaving or entering the premises.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 28 June 2026
  • The premise of the story—the pig lab—seems absurdist or surreal but is actually grounded in reality.
    Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 28 June 2026
Noun
  • The presumption of innocence was used by Queiroz to justify the decision to include Partey in Ghana’s World Cup squad and by Spanish club Villarreal to justify his signing last summer as a free agent.
    Cerys Jones, New York Times, 27 June 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • That dictum applies beyond the theater.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 18 June 2026
  • Safe and familiar as that trajectory might be in a post-#GirlBoss rom-com, Goldstein and Joe Kelly’s script adds a little spice into the mix by questioning the dictums of today’s office culture.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 4 June 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • Euclid’s postulates for geometry; various schemes for standardizing arithmetic.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 29 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Organizations often invest in sophisticated detection and mitigation systems but fail to develop the doctrine, confidence and authority structures required to use them effectively.
    Bill Edwards, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • The clock seemed to rewind 1,400 years as tenets established at the religion’s dawn—Sharia law—were formalized into the doctrine of Velayat-e Faqih, the Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist.
    Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 29 June 2026
Noun
  • And in desperate times, people don’t tend to think in hypotheticals or a decade out.
    Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 24 June 2026
  • Maybe my innocent hypothetical would soon become very real.
    Steven Rowley, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026
Noun
  • The brand positions the fabric and fit as its answer to the old assumption that hemp-heavy shirts could not feel comfortable enough for everyday wear.
    Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 24 June 2026
  • This morning favors gentle starts and better listening, while the afternoon asks us to slow replies, check assumptions, and make our tone easier to understand.
    Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 23 June 2026
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“Ipse dixit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ipse%20dixit. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.

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