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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ipse dixits
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Minor damage was caused to the synagogue’s premises and nobody was injured in that attack, police said.—
Lauren Kent,
CNN Money,
21 Apr. 2026 -
When citizens insist on shaping the basic terms of social life by appealing to premises that others cannot reasonably be expected to accept—revelation, doctrines of transcendence, private moral visions—the result is not a purer politics but a dangerously brittle one.—
Nikhil Krishnan,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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Another postulates that sleep removes waste from the brain.—
Shayla Love,
New Yorker,
18 Feb. 2026
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This notion was based on outdated presumptions of hillforts as being occupied by violent, prehistoric savages.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
10 Apr. 2026
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ProPublica, in a 2023 story, reexamined the incident, the legal presumptions, the background of the men and Stingley’s father’s relentless legal campaign to bring the men into court.—
Megan O’Matz,
ProPublica,
16 Jan. 2026
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Customer expectations reset in real time, tariffs and input costs are repricing entire categories overnight, and planning assumptions that held last quarter no longer apply.—
Anita Beveridge-Raffo,
Fortune,
16 Apr. 2026
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Fame comes with certain assumptions.—
Katherine McLaughlin,
Architectural Digest,
16 Apr. 2026
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His preference would be to find simpler axioms for quantum mechanics — intuitive principles that would let theorists re-derive the theory in a new form altogether.—
Daniel Garisto,
Quanta Magazine,
7 Nov. 2025
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In other words, as Cleveland tore through the league last season, the players responded to most of the milestones reached with a collective shrug and worn axioms about nothing mattering until the playoffs.—
Joe Vardon,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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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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Maybe anyone planning long journeys should take those maxims as advice anyhow.—
Michael Teo Van Runkle,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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The conservative justices peppered Stewart with hypotheticals.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
24 Mar. 2026
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In the view of the Department of Defense, Anthropic kneecapped the partnership by insisting on unnecessary guardrails, attempting to litigate specific hypotheticals, and then dragging its feet in the subsequent negotiations.—
Harry Booth,
Time,
11 Mar. 2026
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While none of this comes as any surprise to God, the Apostle Paul worried about believers falling prey to people who teach false gospels.—
Chris Roemer,
Baltimore Sun,
2 Apr. 2026
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All four gospels - Matthew, Mark, Luke and John - describe Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey while a crowd met him, waving palm fronds.—
Josh Kelly,
Oklahoman,
25 Mar. 2026
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“Ipse dixits.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ipse%20dixits. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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