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ipse dixit

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Definition of ipse dixit

as in given

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Noun

There were some givens (the Detroit Tigers’ dealing Tarik Skubal), some surprises (the Baltimore Orioles’ moving on from Adley Rutschman) and plenty of hugs given along the way.

— Johnny Flores Jr, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
Schedule flexibility, reliable childcare, predictable transportation—these are treated as givens in how jobs are designed.

— Caroline Fairchild, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2026

Definition of given

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Decades of platform transitions have followed this pattern, including mainframe to PC, desktop to web and mobile and on-premises to cloud.

— Daniel Jebaraj, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
After becoming the sole proprietor of the historic studio premises, Taidelli then began a comprehensive refurbishment project in 2024, marking the couple’s first collaboration together.

— Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of premise

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Clancy was tried in a Massachusetts court of law, one of the few venues where defendants such as Clancy enjoy the presumption of proof for pleas of insanity, once they are allowed to make such a plea.

— Richard E. Vatz, Baltimore Sun, 6 Sep. 2026
Without the presumption, service members would need to undergo the process of proving their service caused their condition.

— Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of presumption

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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

Definition of dictum

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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
Euclid’s postulates for geometry; various schemes for standardizing arithmetic.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 29 Apr. 2026

Definition of postulate

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Among them was the revival of medieval doctrines of just war, which subordinated contractual obligations to unilateral claims of moral authority—doctrines that resurfaced during the war on terror to justify pre-emptive attacks and torture.

— Faisal Devji, Time, 11 Sep. 2026
Talarico, a former school teacher and Presbyterian seminarian serving his fourth term in the Texas House of Representatives, made waves in national politics through a combination of progressive values grounded in religious doctrine.

— Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of doctrine

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Thus, hypotheticals involving the NFL using a college football model might have been off base.

— Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 8 Sep. 2026
His second-guessing doesn’t stanch his inner torrent of bile, which continues through dinner with Irène and her mother, and goes on for another fifteen pages of emotional hypotheticals and conditionals.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 9 July 2026

Definition of hypothetical

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There’s an assumption that the second half is Shakespeare’s, but scholars continue to quarrel over attribution.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
While Gaetz and Pizzo have fought for the family’s reunification, some of Zuraff’s family members have spoken out and said lawmakers are making assumptions about the case without knowing the full circumstances.

— Romy Ellenbogen Herald, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2026

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