ipse dixits

plural of ipse dixit

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Noun
  • Keeping data onsite DiagFit also supports on-premises deployment, giving customers an alternative to sending operational information into cloud infrastructure.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2026
  • The Partner-Centric Cloud Advantage Integrators can leverage multitenant cloud platforms to eliminate on-premises server overhead and centralize multisite administration.
    — Robert Messer, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 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
  • These were all reasonable presumptions at that time but would also require years of data to evaluate.
    — David N. Hackney, STAT, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Mungiu refuses to supply easy answers or simple paths to identification in this compelling provocation, which poses unresolvable questions to viewers about our biases and presumptions.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • An institution unable to revise imagery becomes a museum of assumptions.
    — Frank Porcu, New York Daily News, 20 Sep. 2026
  • And archaeologists not involved with the study are wary of making assumptions as to why ancient people were attracted to betel nuts.
    — Pien Huang, NPR, 19 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The question fascinated David Hilbert, a renowned mathematician who had devoted much of his life to rebuilding physics on a sturdy foundation of crisp axioms.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Yes, the Greeks made remarkable advances in mathematics, but mostly in geometry, which is about solid, stable objects and uses a strict hierarchy of axioms, rules, and procedures—very Platonic.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 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
  • The walls are robin’s-egg blue, painted with images of meditating skeletons and vaguely inspirational maxims.
    — John Semley, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • Some analysts voiced skepticism about the risk of a societal-scale attack carried out by AI, however, noting that such warnings typically come in the form of vague hypotheticals.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Thus, hypotheticals involving the NFL using a college football model might have been off base.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 8 Sep. 2026
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“Ipse dixits.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ipse%20dixits. Accessed 24 Sep. 2026.

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