Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ipse dixits
Noun
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While there's no presidential library on the premises, there is a branch of the Chicago Public Library.—
Susan Page,
USA Today,
15 June 2026 -
Locking themselves into school, these restless teenagers roamed the premises unsupervised.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
14 June 2026
Noun
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Now, tangible results have emerged in a field replete with postulates and presumptions.—
Jenna Ahart,
Quanta Magazine,
2 July 2025
Noun
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Grande has never been the type to ignore the whispers and presumptions that have accompanied her life in the public eye.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
7 June 2026
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Physical presence can trigger or affect certain presumptions under California law concerning California residency.—
Robert W. Wood,
Forbes.com,
27 Apr. 2026
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The trustees note in the report a handful of changing conditions such as fertility rates, immigration, economic conditions and legislation passed since last year have changed the assumptions on which the report is based.—
Mason Leib,
ABC News,
11 June 2026
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Dosenbach says the results have challenged his assumptions about standardized testing for kids—and about screen time.—
Claire Cameron,
Scientific American,
11 June 2026
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Researchers already had reason to believe that the pigeonhole principle can’t be proved from the axioms of PV1 alone, so Li, Chen and Oliveira’s results imply that their other equivalent theorems are also likely unprovable in PV1.—
Ben Brubaker,
Quanta Magazine,
1 Dec. 2025
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The team point, for example, to mathematician Kurt Gödel’s first incompleteness theorem, which states that no consistent system of axioms that can be listed by an algorithm that will prove all the truths about the arithmetic of the natural numbers.—
Ian Randall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Nov. 2025
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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
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By now, decades into Americans’ pursuit of cooking as a mainstream hobby, certain maxims have become near-law among food lovers.—
Emily Heil,
Washington Post,
25 Mar. 2026
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Both maxims are about the stories people tell themselves.—
Julie Beck,
The Atlantic,
2 Feb. 2026
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Families confronting complicated pregnancies are living through painful, high-stakes situations — not policy hypotheticals.—
Robin Sautter,
Washington Post,
18 Apr. 2026
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These are all just hypotheticals.—
Matt Gelb,
New York Times,
5 Apr. 2026
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“Ipse dixits.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ipse%20dixits. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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