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ipse dixit

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Definition of ipse dixit

as in given

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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

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Russian forces also repeatedly struck a shopping center in the southern Mykolaiv region with drones overnight, damaging retail premises and sparking fires, Ukraine’s state emergency services said.

— Kyla Guilfoil, NBC news, 5 Sep. 2026
Despite its copious amounts of blood, Onslaught seems shy about pushing the limits of its own premise.

— Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 4 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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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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But organizations built around the battleship did not abandon decades of doctrine, expertise and status simply because something better had arrived.

— Pankaj Prasoon, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
Driscoll was widely seen as less combative and positioned himself as a driving force for modernizing the Army through updating its doctrine and integrating robots, drones and other emerging technologies into the force.

— Luis Martinez, ABC News, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of doctrine

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There’s no reason to believe organizers of PGA tournaments, marathons, NASCAR races and similar sporting would ever demand payment, and thus the hypotheticals are arguably scare tactics rather than realistic consequences.

— Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 21 July 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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