ipse dixits

plural of ipse dixit

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Noun
  • The Daily Monitor reported on Sunday that military personnel had been deployed at NMG’s premises in the capital, Kampala, and that staff were being prevented from leaving or entering the premises.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 28 June 2026
  • However, the new island hotel isn't just a smart space with robots assisting human staff throughout the premises.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 26 June 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • Another postulates that sleep removes waste from the brain.
    Shayla Love, New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The letter makes presumptions about herbicides and pesticides that do not line up with its proposal outlined on a website detailing the training center project, the statement said.
    Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2026
  • But, once again, some presumptions were made by the auditors.
    Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 10 June 2026
Noun
  • Sotter positions himself as an advocate and changemaker, willing to challenge assumptions and push conversations forward.
    Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 25 June 2026
  • Discrimination and biased assumptions are among the greatest barriers facing people with Down syndrome.
    Michelle Sie Whitten, STAT, 25 June 2026
Noun
  • Everything in mathematics therefore rests on the axioms, or basic building blocks, of the field.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 26 May 2026
  • One may argue that a more fundamental theory (with more complete axioms) could decide the question, but the final theory should not have undecidable statements.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 18 May 2026
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • Maybe anyone planning long journeys should take those maxims as advice anyhow.
    Michael Teo Van Runkle, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • And in desperate times, people don’t tend to think in hypotheticals or a decade out.
    Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 24 June 2026
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“Ipse dixits.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ipse%20dixits. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.

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