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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 coming weeks will test that premise.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Mar. 2026
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And sometimes a good premise didn’t really go anywhere, as was the case with the hotel charges sketch.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
8 Mar. 2026
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This reflects a historical and fundamental societal disregard for Black children, particularly Black boys, as human beings — a society that does not extend to them the same presumption of childhood or worthiness of grace that is typically afforded to white children.—
Erika Strauss Chavarria,
Baltimore Sun,
10 Mar. 2026
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International humanitarian law was conceived around the presumption of human judgment in the context of proportionality and distinction.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Mar. 2026
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Testing the limits of the dictum that targets of his opprobrium should take him seriously, not literally, Trump is aggressively threatening to swallow Greenland, despite the current lack of threats and his previous neglect of America’s military role on the island.—
Doug Bandow,
Washington Post,
16 Jan. 2026
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Not that the publishing industry can’t or shouldn’t address the more general problem Kuznetsova highlights, which applies to this dictum, too.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Dec. 2025
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That postulate would justify racial quotas or preferences to remedy racial discrimination uncorroborated by credible evidence.—
Bruce Fein,
Baltimore Sun,
5 Mar. 2026
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Another postulates that sleep removes waste from the brain.—
Shayla Love,
New Yorker,
18 Feb. 2026
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Two people in the same local assembly may share similar doctrines but be at odds over the efficacy of modern scientific medicine, especially vaccines.—
Cory Anderson,
STAT,
6 Mar. 2026
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To some, Midnight Hammer validated a doctrine of decisive action—limited in duration but maximal in force.—
Eric Cortellessa,
Time,
5 Mar. 2026
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And after a seventh-straight loss and a second straight season left spiraling, hypotheticals could only carry USC and its coach so far.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Mar. 2026
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If hypotheticals about what could have been are a good dream for New York Knicks fans, then Mikal Bridges is the alarm clock that startles them awake.—
James L. Edwards III,
New York Times,
2 Mar. 2026
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The revelation demonstrates another way in which black holes and neutron stars push the laws of physics, and casts doubt on assumptions regarding the formation and evolution of these mixed binary systems.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
11 Mar. 2026
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Miss Manners suggests compassion, dignity and an assumption of goodwill and good intentions.—
Judith Martin,
Mercury News,
11 Mar. 2026
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“Ipse dixit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ipse%20dixit. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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