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ipse dixit

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as in given

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Schedule flexibility, reliable childcare, predictable transportation—these are treated as givens in how jobs are designed.

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

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That buy-in proves essential to a movie whose premise requires you to suspend every iota of your disbelief, lest its Lanthimos-lite approach to child abduction curdle into something much darker.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 17 July 2026
The bakery must have the premises serviced by a pest control operator before reopening, the report said.

— Zareen Syed, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2026

Definition of premise

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Success breeds overconfidence; overconfidence hardens into presumption; and presumption eventually obscures the actual source of momentum.

— Clifford Hudson, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Torres wrote that courts apply a presumption against preemption in areas where states historically exercised their police powers, and gambling regulation has historically been left to states.

— Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 8 July 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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Far from being a resolution to moving past trauma, Stevens said, the forgive-and-forget doctrine likely harms victims more.

— Jeremy Kohler, ProPublica, 20 July 2026
So Sheikh Hamad's doctrine may outlast him, but only if optionality becomes operational resilience rather than a portfolio of relationships on paper.

— Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 18 July 2026

Definition of doctrine

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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
With that in mind, let’s run through some of those hypotheticals that Zito will be facing — and has been facing — as free agency looms.

— Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 28 June 2026

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